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Eugenia D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1405) interviewed by Abraham Huberman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1405

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Eugenia D., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls her affluent family life; her oldest brother withdrawing from medical school due to antisemitism; German invasion; ghettoization; severe hunger; food smuggling; deportations; building and hiding in bunkers; the ghetto uprising; and deportation to Majdanek. Mrs. D. recounts forced labor; tranport to Auschwitz three months later with her mother, aunts, and cousins; successful efforts to remain with her mother; a severe beating for refusing to enter a truck that she knew would take them to execution; working with women from the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager), who helped her; its dissolution in one night; transfer to Ravensbrück, another camp, then Malchow; escaping from a death march with her mother; and liberation by Soviets. She notes her extreme poverty when she arrived in Argentina and details the sadism of concentration camp guards.
Author/Creator: D., Eugenia, 1926-
Published: Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 1990
Interview Date: October 10, 1990.
Locale: Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Cite As: Eugenia D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1405). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Huberman, Abraham, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Spanish.

Physical Details

Language: Spanish
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 16 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Antisemitism Prewar.
Bunkers.
Hiding.
Resistance.
Mutual aid.
Child survivors.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Warsaw. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Children. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Mothers and daughters. Escapes. Poland. Warsaw (Poland) Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. D., Eugenia,--1926- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Malchow (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1091649
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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