Survivor Eva Foti remembers how she and other Jews were herded from the safe houses to the Danube River. Watch her testimony and read her biography.
About the Interviewee
Eva Foti was born in 1930 in Budapest in a middle-class Jewish family. Her father was an attorney and her mother was an accountant. Her maternal grandmother lived with them. In June 1944, their apartment building was designated as a yellow-star house. Her parents were taken to Austria in a forced march, while Eva and her grandmother acquired protective Swedish and Swiss passports and relocated to the international ghetto. Eva was taken to the Danube; she survived the mass shootings.
Meanwhile, her parents escaped from the labor camp and hid in the cellar of a peasant family in Esztergom. Eva was able to live there as well, and all three of them received fake documents. They moved back near Budapest where Eva's sister was born; the baby died when she was six weeks old. Eva’s grandmother survived in the Budapest ghetto, however, most of Eva's extended family was killed during the Holocaust. Eva married in 1950 and her son was born in 1954. The family emigrated the United States in 1956. Her daughter was born in the United States. The interview was conducted in 1995, New Jersey, United States.