- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Eva K., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1936. She describes her close-knit, extended family; moving to Budapest; her father's conscription for forced labor; being sent to her grandparents in Transylvania; returning to Budapest; hiding with neighbors; and capture with her mother when they attempted to escape using false papers. Mrs. K. recounts transfer to a brickyard; separation from her mother while marching to Germany (she never saw her again); another woman caring for her; feeling isolated in Ravensbrück because no one spoke Hungarian and she was the only child; the humiliation of having to stand naked at roll call; transport to Bergen-Belsen; seeing mountains of corpses; a woman caring for her; and stealing food from the kitchen. She recounts liberation; hospitalization due to typhus; joining other children from Bergen-Belsen in Sweden where they were well treated; losing a ring her mother had given her; returning to Hungary after learning her father had survived; emigration to the United States due to the Hungarian uprising in 1957; reluctance to share her experience with her children; and recurring nightmares.
- Author/Creator
- K., Eva, 1936-
- Published
- Northridge, Calif. : Child Survivor Archive at California State University, Northridge, 1984
- Interview Date
- February 29, 1984.
- Locale
- Romania
Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
Budapest (Hungary)
Sweden
- Cite As
- Eva K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-316). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Moskovitz, Sarah, interviewer.
