AHC interview with Eva Kollisch

Digital recordingFebruary 10, 2014Eva Kollisch was born on Aug. 17, 1925, in Vienna, Austria. She, her parents, Margarete and Otto Kollisch, and her two brothers, Stephan and Peter, lived in Baden bei Wien until the three children were sent to England on a "Kindertransport" in July of 1939. In 1940, the family reunited in Staten Island, New York. She became affiliated with Trotskyism and worked in various factories during WWII to show her solidarism with the workers and recruit people for the party. After the war Eva Kollisch continued her education and became a professor for German, English and Comparative Literature at Sarah Lawrence College. She eventually settled with her companion, the poet Naomi Replansky.Austrian Heritage Collectio