Eva E. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eva E., who was born in a small town in Poland in 1912, one of fourteen children. She recalls one brother had fifteen children; moving to Warsaw; marriage at age sixteen or seventeen; the births of a son and two daughters; ghettoization; her children and mother-in-law being taken from hiding in 1942 (she never saw them again); hiding in a bunker with her husband; separation from him when they were found (she never saw him again); deportation to Majdanek; slave labor carrying stones; working with her husband's sister; her disappearance; transfer to Auschwitz; finding three nieces; staying in their barrack; transfer to Bergen-Belsen about eighteen months later in December 1944; liberation by British troops in April 1945; hospitalization for six months in Hannover; reunion with a niece; remarriage; and emigration to the United States. Ms. E. discusses contemplating suicide in camp, but others preventing her; crying so much that her eyes were damaged; physical ailments resulting from her experiences; only herself, two nephews, and a niece surviving from her very large family; and her disbelief in her own experiences.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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This testimony can only be viewed by Yale students and faculty at Yale University.
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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. The testimony or excerpts from it cannot be used for publication.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- E., Eva , -- 1912-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Forced labor.
- Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Children -- Death.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Husband -- Death.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- Bunkers.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
- Suicide.
Places
- Warsaw ghetto.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Hannover (Germany)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat