Eva L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in Reichenberg (Liberec), Czechoslovakia in 1933. She recalls her affluent family; vacationing in Belgium in 1938; moving to Prague with her parents in September; attending Jewish school; a last visit to her maternal grandparents; smuggling themselves into Hungary in 1939; six weeks in Budapest in her aunt's home; separation from her parents, when they were arrested while illegally entering Yugoslavia using false papers; telling the guards, as instructed, that she was Catholic; her release; brief stays in Zagreb and Mitrovica; attending school in Ruma; her parents obtaining visas to the United States; traveling by boat from Sofia to Odesa in February 1941, then by train to Moscow and Vladivostok, and by boat to Ko?be, Japan. Mrs. L. describes sightseeing in Tokyo and Kyoto while waiting for the ship, and traveling from Yokohama to San Francisco. She discusses anxiety about separation from her parents; the trauma of learning that most of her relatives were killed; her parents' insistence that she be educated and have a career; and her desire to protect her parents.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- L., Eva, -- 1933-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- False papers.
- Child survivors.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Family.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Liberec (Czech Republic)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Reichenberg (Czech Republic)
- Vladivostok (Russia)
- KoĚbe-shi (Japan)
- Odesa (Ukraine)
- Moscow (Russia)
- MacĚvanska Mitrovica (Serbia)
- Sofia (Bulgaria)
- Zagreb (Croatia)
- Ruma (Serbia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat