Eva W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Eva W., who was born in Novaya Mysh?, Russia in 1913, one of six children. She recounts her father's service in World War I; his imprisonment as a POW in Germany for five years; attending school in Baranavichy, then Catholic nursing school in Warsaw; working in Warsaw after graduation; marriage in 1938; a visit home in 1939 (she never saw her family again); raising her husband's stepson; German invasion; ghettoization; becoming pregnant; her son's premature birth in June 1942; being released from a round-up by an SS man; hiding during round-ups; a former teacher from Mysh? offering to hide her; her husband making alternate arrangements; leaving the ghetto with a non-Jew in March 1943; traveling with him to Czarny Potok; living as non-Jews; learning of the Warsaw ghetto revolt; treating locals when they learned she was a nurse; her husband sending a nun for the baby (he could be hidden since he was not circumcised); her unwillingness to give him up; communication from her husband and stepson from Germany; refusing to admit she was Jewish when beaten by SS; returning to Warsaw; and using her nursing school diploma to prove she was Catholic (two non-Jewish friends from school confirmed this).

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