Roger S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Roger S., who was born in Paris, France in 1915. He recalls two years military service beginning in 1936; recall in 1939; discharge in Metz in 1940; imprisonment in Cherche-Midi in 1941; transfer to Clairvaux in 1942; deportation to Drancy in July; distributing coffee, cleaning rooms, and taking care of children deported from Pithiviers; joining a group building an escape tunnel; interrogation and deportation after the Germans discovered it; nineteen of them escaping from the train (only one was eventually recaptured); assistance from many Resistants and other non-Jews; traveling with false papers to Lyon; and reunion with his family. Mr. S. relates his friends' escape stories, their postwar reunions, and reflects on the differences in each survivor's experiences.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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People
- S., Roger, -- 1915-
Corporate Bodies
- Centrale de Clairvaux.
- Drancy (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Concentration camps -- Underground movements.
- False papers.
- Mutual aid.
- Hiding.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, French.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Escapes.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
Places
- France.
- Paris (France)
- Lyon (France)
- Metz (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat