Soula M. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Soula M., a Greek Evangelist, who was born in Katerine?, Greece in 1924. She recounts German invasion; her family hiding British soldiers in their house; their arrest in July 1942; beatings during interrogations; transfer to prison in Salonika, then Banjica, Serbia; severe beatings by Croatian guards; transfer to Birkenau; slave labor digging ditches; sharing stolen food with other prisoners; dreaming she should volunteer for transfer; volunteering for a labor camp; transfer to Eberswalde; escaping with friends during a death march; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. M. describes meeting other Greek survivors, including her future husband (a Jewish-Greek survivor), in Germany; their return to Greece; marriage; converting to Judaism; and emigration to the United States.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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
- M., Soula, -- 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Eberswalde (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Banjica (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Death marches.
- Dreams.
- Proselytes and proselyting, Jewish.
- Escapes.
- Resistance.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mutual aid.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Greek.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Greece.
Places
- Greece.
- KaterineĚ (Greece)
- ThessalonikeĚ (Greece)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat