AHC interview with Maria Eva Bergmann.

February 10, 2006Maria Eva Bergmann, née Vari, was born on Feb. 4, 1919 in Vienna, Austria. She escaped to Zurich, Switzerland in October 1938 with the help of a family friend. Bergmann stayed in Switzerland illegally for 3 months until her aunt, who lived in London, got her a visitor visa for England. There she and her aunt found two sponsors for her parents, who were able to come to England in 1940. They boarded a ship in Liverpool and immigrated to New York, where Bergmann got a refugee scholarship to study psychology, launching a career as a psychoanalyst.Austrian Heritage Collectio