Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Eva T., who was born in Sombor, Yugoslavia in 1926. She recalls Hungarian occupation in April 1941; attending school; her father's forced labor; German invasion in March 1944; her father's arrest; arrest with her mother in April; transfer to Baja, Bačka Topola, then Auschwitz/Birkenau; a deep sense of humiliation; becoming numb; hospitalization; daily visits by Josef Mengele; her mother's block chief arranging transfer to their barrack; slave labor sorting prisoners' belongings; transfer to another barrack; digging trenches; a three week hospitalization; friendship with a French prisoner; her mother's selection for death; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, remaining with a friend from Sombor; seeing Josef Kramer; transfer to Braunschweig; clearing bombing rubble; receiving extra food from a German overseer; transfer to a medical camp, then Ravensbrück; evacuation by foot in April 1945; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home three months later; and reunion with her father. Mrs. T. discusses the sadistic camp officials; the importance of camp friends to her survival; loneliness at liberation; nightmares due to her experiences; and the significance to her of remembering those who were killed.
- Published
- Belgrade, Serbia : Jewish Community in Belgrade, 1991
- Interview Date
- May 13, 1991.
- Locale
- Yugoslavia
Sombor (Serbia) - Cite As
- T., Eva, Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2208). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Serbian.
Physical Details
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 15 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hungarian occupation.
Mutual aid.
Postwar effects.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences.
Aid by non-Jews. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Forced labor. Mothers and daughters. Friendship. Nightmares. Yugoslavia. Sombor (Serbia) Oral histories (document genres) T., Eva,--1926- Mengele, Josef,--1911-1979. Kramer, Josef,--1906-1945. Bačka Topola (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Braunschweig (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296622
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:32:00
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