- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1927. She recalls attending a Jewish school; her father's shoe store; antisemitism beginning in 1938; confiscation of the store in 1943; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Strasshof in June; finding her mother, sister, and aunts after their separation; their transfer to a munitions factory near Vienna; Allied bombings; assistance from an Austrian engineer; observing Yom Kippur with religious prisoners; singing and reciting poetry to raise morale; return to Strasshof; abandonment by the guards in April 1945; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Debrecen; learning her father had survived, but other relatives were killed; marriage in December; the births of two sons; escaping to Austria during the 1956 uprising; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. G. discusses how rare and lucky it was that her immediate family survived; living with painful memories and anger; she and her husband recently sharing their stories with their children; returning to visit her parents; and bringing her father to the United States after her mother's death (he died five years ago at age 87). She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- G., Eva, 1927-
- Published
- Brookline, Mass. : Brookline Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1991
- Interview Date
- November 19, 1991.
- Locale
- Hungary
Debrecen
Debrecen (Hungary)
Austria
- Cite As
- Eva G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2290). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Langer, Lawrence L., interviewer.
