- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Eva E., who was born in a small town in Poland in 1912, one of fourteen children. She recalls one brother had fifteen children; moving to Warsaw; marriage at age sixteen or seventeen; the births of a son and two daughters; ghettoization; her children and mother-in-law being taken from hiding in 1942 (she never saw them again); hiding in a bunker with her husband; separation from him when they were found (she never saw him again); deportation to Majdanek; slave labor carrying stones; working with her husband's sister; her disappearance; transfer to Auschwitz; finding three nieces; staying in their barrack; transfer to Bergen-Belsen about eighteen months later in December 1944; liberation by British troops in April 1945; hospitalization for six months in Hannover; reunion with a niece; remarriage; and emigration to the United States. Ms. E. discusses contemplating suicide in camp, but others preventing her; crying so much that her eyes were damaged; physical ailments resulting from her experiences; only herself, two nephews, and a niece surviving from her very large family; and her disbelief in her own experiences.
- Author/Creator
- E., Eva , 1912-
- Published
- Brookline, Mass. : Brookline Holocaust Memorial Committee, 1991
- Interview Date
- February 26, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Warsaw
Warsaw (Poland)
Hannover (Germany)
- Cite As
- Eva E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2291). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Langer, Lawrence L., interviewer.
