Jean C. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jean C., who was born in France in 1908. He recalls his family had been in France for many generations; his prewar position as director of the Minister of the Interior's cabinet; military service when Germany invaded; demobilization; living in Carcassonne; marriage to a Catholic in 1940; their daughter's birth; arrest and imprisonment; transfer to Drancy; joining a group building an escape tunnel; their denunciation in November 1943; being shot at to scare him into revealing information; train deportation; jumping from the train; assistance from local villagers and railroad workers; traveling to Paris, then Switzerland (he knew the president); and returning to Paris after the war. Mr. C. discusses the administration and prisoner hierarchy in Drancy.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- C., Jean, -- 1908-
Corporate Bodies
- Drancy (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, French.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
- Escapes.
- Concentration camps -- Underground movements.
- Aid by non-Jews.
Places
- Paris (France)
- Switzerland.
- France.
- Carcassonne (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat