Eva R. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Eva R., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1927. She recalls an idyllic childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; vacations with her parents; German occupation in March 1939; anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from school; participating in a Jewish club; deportation to Theresienstadt with her father in August 1942 (her mother was on the next transport); working in the fields; cultural activities, including music and poetry lectures; Jewish leadership diverting resources to the young people; "dating" her future husband; a physician treating her serious illness; sham inspection by the Red Cross; deportation to Auschwitz in October 1944; separation from her father (she never saw him again); transfer to Kurzbach with her mother; reciting poetry while digging trenches; kindness from a camp officer; escaping from a death march with her mother and three other women; hiding in a farm house; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. R. recounts traveling to Prague via Cze?stochowa; marriage in 1947; and emigration to the United States in 1960. She discusses the importance of luck to her survival and her children's understanding of these experiences.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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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
- R., Eva, -- 1927-
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Women.
- Jewish councils.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Fathers and daughters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Concentration camps -- Songs and music.
- Concentration camps -- Poetry.
- Child survivors.
- Death marches.
- Escapes.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Mutual aid.
Places
- Kurzbach (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Czechoslovakia.
- Częstochowa (Poland)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat