Suzy G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Suzy G., who was born in Paris, France. She recalls a close and large extended family; her father serving in the military; her mother's miscarriage during the German invasion in 1940; visiting her father in the hospital after he was wounded; remaining with her grandmother when her mother hid with a non-Jewish policeman; her mother's return; her father's discharge in Limoges; she and her mother joining him using false papers; protection by non-Jewish neighbors; being sent away to hide with non-Jews; being moved several times; visits from her mother; seeing the smoke after the burning of Oradour-sur-Glane; being moved to a convent in Gue?ret; becoming ill; hospitalization and surgery; her mother retrieving her; living with her parents and infant sister in Limoges; returning to Paris after liberation; her parents adopting a cousin whose parents were deported; encountering antisemitism; emigration to the United States; marriage; and the births of three children. Ms. G. discusses her sense of anxiety, panic, and isolation resulting from her experiences; not sharing them with her children until recently; and many relatives being killed in the Holocaust.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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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
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Suzy.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Sisters.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Convents.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- False papers.
- Postwar effects.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
Places
- France.
- Paris (France)
- Limoges (France)
- GueĚret (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat