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Eva E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2897) interviewed by Naomi Rappaport,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2897

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Eva E., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1926. She recalls moving to Mukacheve; close relations with a large, extended family; attending Jewish schools; Hungarian occupation in 1938; helping relatives fleeing from Poland; German occupation in spring 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with three cousins; learning about the gas chambers and realizing her mother had been killed; her cousins' help when she was ill; one cousin who "organized" extra food for them; their transfer to Lenzing in November; forced factory labor; being seriously injured; six weeks' hospitalization (she remains partially handicapped from that injury); help from an Austrian worker; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Prague; reunion with her father and brother in Theresienstadt; returning to Mukacheve to retrieve hidden family valuables; theft of the valuables while returning to Prague; learning her father had died; moving to Budapest; her cousin's and brother's emigration to Palestine; remaining to study medicine; learning of her brother's death; moving to Vienna; emigrating to the United States in 1951; and marriage in 1953. Mrs. E. discusses depressions resulting from relatives' deaths; the importance of being with her cousins; her professional life; and family. She shows photographs.
    Author/Creator
    E., Eva, 1926-
    Published
    New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1994
    Interview Date
    March 10, 1994 and April 14, 1994.
    Locale
    Ukraine
    Mukacheve
    Hungary
    Budapest (Hungary)
    Mukacheve (Ukraine)
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Vienna (Austria)
    Cite As
    Eva E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2897). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Rappaport, Naomi, interviewer.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    2 videorecordings (1 hr., 51 min., and 56 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Postwar experiences.
    Child survivors.
    Mutual aid.
    Jews Hungary Munkács.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Hungarian occupation.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4289120
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:42:00
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/hvt4289120

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