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Oral history interview with Eva Korn

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.566 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0566

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    Oral history interview with Eva Korn

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Ms. Korn's childhood in Bratislava, Slovakia; her education; the family visits to family in Vienna, Austria; and the changes that the Anschluss in March 1938 created when travel to Vienna became more difficult and antisemitism more prevalent. Ms. Korn recalls the institution of anti-Jewish laws in 1939, working illegally as a seamstress, and the deportations that began in 1942, including her mother and brother's deportations to Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen. Ms. Korn describes the false identity papers she was able to obtain, her arrest in January 1945, her transport first to Sered and then Theresienstadt, where she remained until its liberation in May 1945. She describes conditions at Theresienstadt, including typhoid, her return to Bratislava after the war ended, her immigration to Switzerland in 1947 and then to the United States in 1951. Ms. Korn describes her life in the United States, her marriage, and her experiences with reconciliation to heal the trauma of her Holocaust experiences.
    Interviewee
    Eva Korn
    Interviewer
    Sandra Bendayan
    Gail Moscoso
    Simon Levine
    Date
    interview:  1995 November 14
    interview:  1995 November 21
    interview:  1996 February 07
    interview:  1996 February 27
    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
    7 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Korn, Eva.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Eva Korn on November 14, 1995, November 21, 1995, February 7, 1996, and February 27, 1996. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in February 2003.
    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 08:45:46
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