Irene K., Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Irene K., who was born in Strasbourg, France in 1920. She describes her family's restaurant; good relations with non-Jews; attending lycee for nurses' training; evacuation to Limoges in September 1939; her brother's escape to join the Free French in North Africa; marriage in 1941; working for OSE to hide and assist Jewish children; her husband's work with the underground; her daughter's birth in 1942; arrest and escape when the train station was bombed; and hiding with her husband, child and mother-in-law for a year with friends in the underground. Mrs. K. recounts working with the Red Cross after the massacre in Oradour-sur-Glane in June 1944 and secretly taking photographs which she shows. Mrs. K. dedicates her testimony to those who hid her family.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- K., Irene, -- 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- World Union OSE.
Subjects
- Mass killings.
- Hiding.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Escapes -- France.
- False papers.
- Resistance.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Husband and wife.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre, 1944.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
Places
- France.
- Vichy (France)
- Limoges (France)
- Strasbourg (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat