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Eva Bartsila Sendro

Testimony
Testimony of Eva (Bruck) Szendro Bartsila, born in Budapest, Hungary, 1925, regarding her experiences in a marked house in Budapest, in hiding, prison with Hannah Szenes and the Budapest Ghetto Life before the war; learns in a monastery; attends a Jewish school. German occupation; transfer to a marked house; life in a marked house; life in subterranean hiding with the family and additional Jews near the home of the engineer Bokody, who supplied them food for a month; capture of the family by the Arrow Cross; life in prison including sharing a cell with Hannah Szenes; release from prison; move to Buda; confiscation of valuables; death of her father; betrayal to the Gestapo; injury of her mother in the leg; deportation to the Budapest Ghetto; ghetto life and disease; liberation by the Red Army. Behavior of the Red Army soldiers towards civilians; marriage in Buda, 1946; move to Czechoslovakia; detention; move to Vienna; aliya to Israel, 1949.
item Id
4435244
First Name
Eva
Last Name
Bar Tzila
Bartsila
Sendro
Szendro
Maiden Name
Bruck
Bruk
Date of Birth
1925
Place of Birth
Budapest, Hungary
Type of material
Testimony
Language
Hebrew
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
15/06/03
Date of Creation - latest
15/06/03
Name of Submitter
BARTSILA SZENDRO BRUCK EVA
Original
YES
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Connected to Item
O.3 - Testimonies gathered by Yad Vashem
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection