Yvette B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Yvette B., who was born in France. She describes attending school in Paris; German invasion; her decision, along with her sister, not to declare themselves as Jews; obtaining false papers; joining her family in Lyon; entering the Resistance through Bertie Albrecht; activities in Vitteaux; providing social services for several Resistance groups; coordinating with Resistance leaders (she names many); secret marriage to a Resistance leader; arrest with her husband in January 1943; imprisonment in Blois; torture and interrogations; suffering a stillbirth; transfer to a hospital; escape to Vendo?me with help from resistants; re-arrest; transfer to prison in Fresnes, then to Drancy; and deportation to Birkenau. She recalls Simone Veil's arrival; learning her husband had perished; help from other prisoners; forced labor; public hanging of Mala Zimetbaum; the death march to Ravensbru?ck; transfer to Litome?r?ice; liberation by Soviet troops; and repatriation via Jena. Mrs. B. discusses the importance of fellow prisoners to her survival; her state of mind in the camps; seeing victims of medical experiments; childbirths in the camps; reluctance to share her experience after the war; her work aiding orphans of deported resistants; and testifying against the people responsible for her arrest (they were shot). She names many people who were involved in French resistance organizations.

3 videocassettes