Edith A. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Edith A., who was born in Tver?, Russia in 1917. She recalls attending Jewish school in ?o?dz?; attending university in Krako?w; antisemitic incidents; studying at the Sorbonne in 1939; her parents' and sister's visit in July 1939; her sister's surgery in Bordeaux; her parents' departure for Poland on August 21, 1939; attempts to return home with her sister; the outbreak of war; contacting her parents via Vienna and Switzerland; German invasion; fleeing from Bordeaux to Biarritz and Bolle?ne with her sister; escaping a round-up in August 1942 with assistance from a physician in Orange; hiding with her sister in Perpignan with assistance from a non-Jew; their arrest and incarceration in Rivesaltes in September; avoiding deportations with assistance from the French doctor who performed her sister's surgery; transfer to Gurs; typing lists of arriving and departing prisoners; sharing bread with her sister; returning to Bolle?ne in April 1943 with assistance from their landlady; liberation by United States troops in August 1944; working as a translator in Marseille; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. A. discusses the importance of her sister to her survival and their continuing sustaining relationship.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- A., Edith, -- 1917-
Corporate Bodies
- Rivesaltes (Concentration camp)
- Gurs (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- Mutual aid.
- Jews -- Migration.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Sisters.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Orange (France)
- Bollène (France)
- Bordeaux (Aquitaine, France)
- Biarritz (France)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Paris (France)
- Tverʹ (Russia)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Russia.
- Marseille (France)
- Perpignan (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat