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Eva Holocaust testimony (HVT-2552)

Creator
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.
Language
Spanish
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)
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