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Oral history interview with Eva Koepsell

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.36 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0036

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    Oral history interview with Eva Koepsell

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    Interview Summary
    Eva Koepsell, born in 1944 in Budapest, Hungary, describes her father, who was a physicist, and her mother, who was a social worker (she shows pictures of her family from 1906); how she doesn’t have many memories from the war but learned about her family’s experience later; her mother losing her job in 1941; her father working until he lost his job in 1943 and was taken to a forced-labor camp; her family living in cellars first in the Jewish ghetto; her aunt’s baby dying from lack of food; another aunt being taken in 1944 to Auschwitz, where she survived medical experiments but then could not have children; her mother converting to Catholicism and hiding; her mother leaving her at a Red Cross nursery where many babies were saved; going to the United States in 1947 when she was three and a half years old; her mother being very much affected by the events and her efforts to distance herself from her experience; her father escaping from the forced-labor camp after a few months; her father working as a physicist in the US; living in the Bronx and having relatives in Brooklyn and Queens; moving later on to Buffalo, NY; going to a Catholic school in the Bronx at age 12; learning about her own Jewish background, of which she is proud; her father dying and her mother returning to Hungary to stay with one of her sisters; the importance of telling her story; poems she wrote about the conditions during the war (which she reads); and the importance of recognizing what is going on and that more people should have acted during the war.
    Interviewee
    Eva Koepsell
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Koepsell, Eva, 1944-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Eva Koepsell with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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    2023-11-16 08:08:23
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