Title
Eva Holocaust testimony (HVT-2552) [videorecording] / interviewed by Abraham Huberman, November 14, 1991.
Created
Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 1991.
Physical Description
1 videorecording (1 hr.) : col.
Notes
This testimony is in Spanish.
Summary
Videotape testimony of Eva, who was born in Budapest, Hungary. She describes feeling both Hungarian and Jewish before the outbreak of war; imposition of anti-Jewish measures; living in a house designated for Jews; hiding under false papers in Budapest during a round-up; working at a munitions factory; arrest during a round-up in November 1944; deportation to Ravensbrück; working at the factory; witnessing a childbirth and the Germans killing the mother and her baby; liberation by United States troops; her emotional reunion with her parents in Budapest (they did not know she had survived); marriage in 1948; and emigration with her husband to Austria, then to Argentina. Eva discusses her regret that she could not have children; her perception of her parents' inability to save her; and her personal meaning of survival.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Eva Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2552). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Cite as
Eva Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2552). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Genre/Form
Oral histories (document genres)