Eva G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Satu Mare, Romania in 1925. She recalls attending secular, Jewish, and Catholic schools; her father's emigration to the United States, one of his brothers to Mexico, and the other to Paris; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish laws including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school in Oradea; returning to Satu Mare; working as a tutor; German occupation in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; avoiding selections in order to stay with her mother; their separation in October (she never saw her again); transfer to Hainichen; slave labor in a Framo-Werke GMBH munitions factory; transfer to Theresienstadt; liberation in May 1945; returning to Satu Mare; moving to Bucharest to join her aunt and uncle; hearing from her father; moving to Prague, then Paris; emigrating to Tampico, Mexico with assistance from HIAS to join an uncle, then to the United States five years later; reunion with her father; and marriage to a survivor. Ms. G. discusses alliances in the camps which are strong even today and wounds which have never quite healed.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Eva, -- 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- HIAS (Agency)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar effects.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Forced labor.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Jews -- Romania : JudetĚŚ -- Satu Mare.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Hainichen (Germany : Concentration camp)
- Paris (France)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Satu Mare ghetto.
- Tampico (Tamaulipas, Mexico)
- Satu Mare (Romania : JudetĚŚ)
- Romania.
- Bucharest (Romania)
- Oradea (Romania)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat