Marie F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Marie F., who was born in Pont-a?-Mousson, France in 1925 to a Catholic mother and Jewish father. She recalls attending Catholic school at age four; public school from age six to eleven; her father having her tutored by a priest in Catholic rituals; briefly fleeing south after German invasion; returning; attending school; round-ups of Jews (she and her father were not included); interrogations by Germans despite not wearing the star or having Jewish identity papers; her Jewish friend being beaten to death in the street; her own torture and beating during an interrogation (she has permanent injuries which impact her present health); deportation to a sub-camp of Natzweiler-Struthof; slave labor on a farm; her father organizing her escape after three months; fierce fighting between German and United States troops which destroyed the town; and liberation in September 1944. Ms. F. shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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
- F., Marie, -- 1925-
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Children of interfaith marriage.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Escapes.
- Child survivors.
- Postwar effects.
- Mutual aid.
Places
- Pont-aĚ-Mousson (France)
- France.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat