Ellen P. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Ellen P., a non-Jew who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1925 and who was involved in the Danish Resistance during the war. She describes the German occupation of Denmark in 1940; her involvement in underground politics in high school soon after the occupation; planning for increasingly active means of resistance; and the activities of the Resistance in warning and hiding Jews, as well as smuggling them by boat to Sweden. She speaks of collaboration with the Swedes for the rescue of Jews, including methods of sabotage and blackmail; her brothers' involvement in rescuing Danes from concentration camps; the girls' training to become soldiers; the capitulation of the Germans; and the bombing of Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen. She also recalls the political chaos in Denmark during the war and the unified resistance of the population in the face of German encroachment.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- P., Ellen, -- 1925-
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Danish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Denmark.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- Rescuers.
- Resistance.
Places
- Denmark.
- Copenhagen (Denmark)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc