Eva N. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eva N., who was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1923. She recounts her middle-class family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; visits to her maternal grandparents in Hegyalja; attending gymnasium with her younger brother; Hungarian occupation in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; marriage in June 1943; moving to her husband's home in Nyi?regyha?za; his draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; her daughter's birth; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization in Berehovo; her father's appointment to the Judenrat; deportation to Auschwitz; prisoners advising her to hand her daughter to her mother (she never saw them again); assistance from Slovak prisoners and a cousin; slave labor building roads; public executions; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; slave labor for Organization Todt; other prisoners sharing food; a cousin arranging for her to have privileged position in the kitchen; sharing extra food with others; an Allied bombing; local nuns and doctors treating injured prisoners; transfer to So?mmerda; a prisoner giving birth (the baby was killed); a death march; liberation by United States, then Soviet troops; transfer to a sanatorium in Karlovy Vary; traveling to Prague, then Budapest; assistance from the Jewish community and the Red Cross; living with two cousins; reunion with her father; traveling to Nyi?regyha?za; learning her husband had been deported by the Soviets after liberation and died; traveling to Berehovo; living in Nyi?regyha?za; remarriage; and her son's birth in 1953. Ms. N. notes her father's remarriage and emigration to Israel; postwar antisemitism in Hungary; and her son asking her to record her experiences.
Extent and Medium
2 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.
Rules and Conventions
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- N., Eva, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Organisation Todt (Germany)
- Gelsenkirchen (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Childbirth in concentration camps.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Children -- Death.
- Jewish councils.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Hungarian occupation.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jews -- Ukraine -- Berehove.
- Jewish ghettos.
Places
- Berehove (Ukraine)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Hegyalja (Hungary)
- Nyíregyháza (Hungary)
- Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Budapest (Hungary)
- Berehovo ghetto.
- Sömmerda (Germany : Concentration camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat