Eva E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eva E., who was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1919. Mrs. E. tells of German bombing; trying to give bread to Polish POWs; hoping to survive to see hungry German prisoners; ghettoization; the March 1941 deportation of the unemployed; escaping in March 1942; work for a Polish farmer; an Aktion in which her mother and sisters were taken; reunion with her brothers; a German soldier who advised her not to return to the ghetto with her brothers (they were subsequently taken); and obtaining false papers with the farmer's help in October 1942. She relates hiding with two women and an infant in a bunker under another farmer's stable for twenty-two months; leaving only to pay the farmer; liberation; visiting her old neighborhood; marriage in ?o?dz? in November 1945; escape to Leipheim Displaced Persons camp near Munich; her daughter's birth in France in 1948; arrival in Israel; her husband's Israeli army service; and emigrating to America in 1961. She reflects on life without any surviving siblings and parents; visiting Germany in an attempt to find her companion from the bunker; and the void in her life after her husband's death in 1973.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- E., Eva, -- 1919-
Corporate Bodies
- Leipheim (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- False papers.
- Hiding.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Bunkers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Refugee camps.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
- Jews -- Poland -- Lublin.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Brothers and sisters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Poland.
- Lublin (Poland)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Lublin ghetto.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc