Story 7 – Evelyn Arzt Bergl

Evelyn Arzt Bergl, born in 1931 in Vienna. In this interview she talked about her childhood and her father’s arrest and imprisonment in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Her father was eventually released thanks to her mother’s efforts. He escaped to Milan in Italy with a passport her mother obtained for him. Evelyn, her mother, and her brother joined her father in Milan. They eventually travelled to Genoa and were cared for by the Jewish community there. Evelyn was reunited with her father in the Ferramonti concentration camp. They were liberated by French and Moroccan soldiers and partisans. After the war they lived  in the Cinecittà displaced persons camp. Evelyn met her future husband there. Her family immigrated to the United States and settled in New York. There, she reconnected with Zdenko whom she had met in Cinecittà and they got married in 1954.

Watch full oral history interview with Evelyn here.

Source: USHMM