Ela L. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Ela L. who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in approximately 1924. She recounts German invasion; wearing the yellow armband and forced labor clearing rubble; Germans killing 100 Jews as retribution, including her grandfather; non-Jewish friends hiding her father; obtaining false papers; traveling by train with her parents and sister to the Toplice region in November 1941; living in Kurs?umlija; assistance from non-Jews; leaving in 1942 when Germans were approaching; living in a village with a Serb for more than a year; leaving when warned the Gestapo knew of them; fleeing to Gornji Grgure, then other villages in the Kopaonik Mountains; moving back and forth between villages; arrest by Bulgarian soldiers; imprisonment in Kurs?umlija; release by a Bulgarian lieutenant; returning to Gornji Grgure; assisting peasants to work their fields; and returning to Belgrade in November 1944. Ms. L. notes her family of four and two other relatives survived while fifty-six others were killed. She shows photographs and documents.

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