Eugenia D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eugenia D., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls her affluent family life; her oldest brother withdrawing from medical school due to antisemitism; German invasion; ghettoization; severe hunger; food smuggling; deportations; building and hiding in bunkers; the ghetto uprising; and deportation to Majdanek. Mrs. D. recounts forced labor; tranport to Auschwitz three months later with her mother, aunts, and cousins; successful efforts to remain with her mother; a severe beating for refusing to enter a truck that she knew would take them to execution; working with women from the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager), who helped her; its dissolution in one night; transfer to Ravensbru?ck, another camp, then Malchow; escaping from a death march with her mother; and liberation by Soviets. She notes her extreme poverty when she arrived in Argentina and details the sadism of concentration camp guards.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- D., Eugenia, -- 1926-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- RavensbruĚck (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Malchow (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Death marches.
- Escapes.
- Bunkers.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Resistance.
- Hiding.
- Child survivors.
- Mutual aid.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Mothers and daughters.
Places
- Poland.
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Warsaw (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat