Yvette L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Yvette L., who was born in 1926. She recalls German invasion of Paris; fleeing with her parents and grandmother to Cande?; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish restrictions including wearing the star; going to Noisy-le-Sec with the Scouts to help families whose husbands were deported; Allied bombings; working in a Jewish orphanage; deportation of the entire orphanage to Drancy; interrogations during which she said her parents were dead; deportation to Birkenau; dehumanization, lack of privacy, and selections; difficulties with non-French prisoners; the solidarity of her Scout group which helped maintain morale; assistance from her friends when she was sick; slave labor in Auschwitz; transfer to Kratzau; working in a munitions factory; disappearance of the guards; and arrival of Soviet troops. Mrs. L. describes futile attempts seeking assistance; traveling with her group of twenty to Plze?n; assistance from the Czechs; Red Cross assistance in Longuyon; traveling to Paris; and reunion with her mother. She discusses women who gave birth in concentration camps; her continuing nightmares; maintaining Jewish traditions out of respect for her parents; her loss of belief in God due to war experiences; and visiting the camps, once with fellow survivors and again with her daughter.

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