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Oral history interview with Eva Boros

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.304 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0304

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    Oral history interview with Eva Boros

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Eva Boros, born in 1925, describes her childhood in a small Czechoslovakian town on the Slovak/Hungarian border, which by 1938 was under Hungarian rule; her father being taken for forced labor and his death in 1940; her grief after losing her father; her experiences in the ghetto of Solosz (Solosh), where she and her family were taken in April 1944; being transported to Auschwitz after one month in the ghetto; her experiences while in Auschwitz; being moved with her sisters to Germany to work at an airplane factory; the death of her older sister after their liberation; surviving the war along with her younger sister; meeting her husband after the war; their immigration to Australia in 1950; her wish to live in the United States and immigrating to the US in 1952 when she was pregnant with twins; being joined by husband almost a year after she arrived in the US; the death of one of the twins to cancer in 1986; and the difficulties of losing a child.
    Interviewee
    Eva Boros
    Date
    interview:  1991 May 16
    interview:  1991 July 11
    interview:  1991 December 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Boros, Eva, 1925-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Eva Boros on May 16, 1991, July 11, 1991, and December 11, 1991. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in December 2001.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:44:40
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