Eva L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1443) interviewed by Bernard Weinstein

Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in Ryki, Poland in 1922, the oldest of seven children. She recounts moving to Janowiec in 1925; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; brief hospitalization in Warsaw; caring for her family when her mother was ill; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions and harassment; forced labor; deportation to Zwoleń; separation from her parents and siblings (she never saw them again); deportation to Skarżysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory; a Polish civilian worker giving her food and bringing messages from her father; learning the Jews in Zwoleń had been deported; hospitalization; a friend warning her of an imminent selection; two women giving birth; transfer to Leipzig in 1944; a death march; she and others refusing to continue (those that went with the Germans were shot); liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Kraków; not finding any surviving relatives; thoughts of suicide; marriage to a survivor; traveling to Prague; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; her daughter's birth and death about a year later; emigration to the United States in 1950; the births of her sons; her husband's death; and remarriage. Ms. L. notes not sharing her experiences with her children.