Louis G. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1798
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Louis G., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1925. He recounts his uncle's murder by Brownshirts; moving to Paris with his parents and brother in 1933; attending school; German invasion; fleeing to Lugagnac in June 1940; moving to Cahors; their internment in Agde; their release; living in Montpellier; their futile attempt to enter Switzerland in November 1942; returning to live with a Jew in hiding in Montpellier (his brother and parents went to Saint-Martin-Ve?subie); obtaining real identity papers in Limoges; arrest in Nice; having to report to the police weekly; joining his family in Saint-Martin-Ve?subie in September 1943; walking over the Alps to Valdieri after Italian capitulation; living in the countryside through October; traveling to Florence; Rabbi Nathan Casuto arranging to hide them; Father Casini hiding his mother in a convent; being placed with others in a theater; a German raid; escaping with his brother to a convent (they never saw their father again); Father Casini hiding them in an orphanage; liberation in August 1944; emigration to Israel; and his brother's death in the 1948 war. He discusses his dismay at French collaboration; Yad Vashem honoring their rescuers; and his father's death in Auschwitz.

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. This testimony cannot be used for a work of fiction or nonfiction which is based in whole or large part on the events described herein.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • G., Louis, -- 1925-
  • Casini, Leti.
  • Cassuto, Nathan, -- 1909-1945.

Subjects

  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Child survivors.
  • Hiding.
  • False papers.
  • Convents.
  • Orphanages -- Italy.
  • Parent and child.
  • Brothers.
  • Italian occupation.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, French.
  • Escapes.
  • Jews -- Migrations.
  • Refugees, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.

Places

  • Valdieri (Italy)
  • Saint-Martin-Vésubie (France)
  • Nice (France)
  • Limoges (France)
  • Montpellier (France)
  • Cahors (France)
  • Lugagnac (France)
  • Paris (France)
  • Agde (France : Concentration camp)
  • Israel.
  • Florence (Italy)
  • Germany.
  • Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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