Alegre T. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2414
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 to a family of seven children. She recalls prewar life; German invasion in 1941; moving with her family, using false papers, to Thessalonike?; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; conditions of deprivation; deportation to Birkenau in cattle cars; separation from her parents (she never saw them again) and brothers upon their arrival; forced labor; and transfer to Auschwitz, then back to Birkenau, in 1944. Mrs. T. remembers one of her sisters being taken away; difficulties because she was Greek and spoke neither German nor Yiddish; sending bread to her brothers (she saw them twice more, then never again); selections and appells; punishment of prisoners trying to escape; transfer with her one remaining sister to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; harsh conditions and slave labor; liberation; recuperation in Switzerland and Brussels; returning to Greece; marrying a survivor from Drama; the births of two children; and emigration to the United States in 1951.

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

  • Associated material: Alegre T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2396), 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

  • Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  • Birkenau (Concentration camp)
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Greece -- Thessalonikē.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Forced labor.
  • Sisters.
  • Brothers and sisters.
  • Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
  • Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
  • False papers.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Mutual aid.

Places

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

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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