Alegre T. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2396
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Alegre T., who was born in Drama, Greece in 1922, one of seven children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-2414), she recounts a happy childhood; attending Jewish school; working at her sister's beauty salon; Bulgarian occupation; slave labor in the Auschwitz shoe kommando; fasting during Yom Kippur; a public execution; Allied bombings; a death march and train transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; liberation by British troops; contacting her cousin via the Red Cross; and traveling with her sister to Brussels, Athens, then Thessalonike?. Ms. T. discusses nightmares resulting from her experiences; sharing her story with her children; and visiting Greece with her daughters in 1972.

Extent and Medium

2 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.

Related Units of Description

  • Related material: Alegre T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2414), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • T., Alegre, -- 1922-

Corporate Bodies

  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  • Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Jews -- Greece -- Thessalonikē.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Sisters.
  • Forced labor.
  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • False papers.
  • Mutual aid.
  • Nightmares.
  • Bulgarian occupation.
  • Death marches.
  • Concentration camp inmates -- Religious life.
  • Brothers and sisters.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
  • Survivor-child relations.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Postwar effects.

Places

  • Thessalonikē (Greece)
  • Brussels (Belgium)
  • Greece.
  • Drama (Greece)
  • Salonika ghetto.
  • Athens (Greece)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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