Oral history interview with Eva Arond

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2020.96.1 | RG Number: RG-50.219.0001

Overview

Interview Summary: Eva Arond, born in June 1929 in Hamburg, Germany, discusses her father, who was a secretary in the Jewish Community Board, fought in German army in WWI, and worked for the Warburg Bank before 1933; her mother, who worked as a sales woman in her uncle’s clothing store; having a happy childhood; attending school; her older brother Alfred; living in an apartment next to a market; the events during Kristallnacht, including her father’s arrest and detainment in the labor camp in Oranienburg for six weeks; the destruction of her mother’s uncle’s store; the air raids in 1939 and hiding in a baker’s basement; receiving a visa from the US government and being sponsored by her mother’s brother; traveling in 1941 to Berlin and waiting for documents for several weeks; going to Lisbon, Portugal; crossing into Spain and seeing the destruction from the Spanish Civil War in Irún; traveling on a freighter ship named “Mouzinho” which departed on a Sunday evening and arrived in Staten Island, New York, on Saturday, June 21, 1941; a group of Jewish children (ages 4-10) who were also on the ship; turning 12 years old the week of their arrival; living in the Bronx with her family; knowing little English and starting the 3rd grade; meeting her husband when she was 18 years old; and visiting Germany six times after the war.
Interviewee: Eva Arond
Interviewer: Nicolas Oulman
Date: interview: 2015 April 08
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nicolas Oulman on behalf of Paulo de Sousa, Mauricio Valente Ribeiro, and Ukbar Filmes

Physical Details

Language: English
Extent: videorecording : MOV.

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Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: Restrictions on use. Donor retains copyright. Third party use requests must be submitted to the donor.
Copyright Holder: Ukbar filmes

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Bombing, Aerial--Germany--Hamburg. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish refugees--Portugal. Jews--Germany--Hamburg. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany. Jews--Segregation--Germany. Kristallnacht, 1938. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. Women--Personal narratives. Passenger ships.
Geographic Name: Berlin (Germany) Hamburg (Germany) Irún (Spain) Lisbon (Portugal) United States--Emigration and immigration.
Personal Name: Arond, Eva.
Corporate Name: Mouzinho (Ship) Oranienburg (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Nicolas Oulman, director of the documentary film "Under the Sky," on behalf of producers Paulo de Sousa and Mauricio Valente Ribeiro of Ukbar filmes, donated the interviews produced for the film to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2018.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Special Collection: The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive

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