Mois E. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2777
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Mois E., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1920. He recounts his father's death; attending a Jewish school; involvement of his sister and brother-in-law in the Communist Party; participating in a communist youth group; German occupation; refusing German orders to register as a Jew and report for forced labor; hiding with his mother, sister, and brother-in-law in near-by sanitariums with assistance from communists; moving after a Greek policeman warned them; joining the EAM partisans (his mother, sister, and brother-in-law were sent elsewhere); working as a courier using false papers; killing captured Germans; helping Jewish friends escape and hide; returning to Thessalonike? after liberation; learning of concentration camps from returning survivors; marriage to a non-Jew who had helped him; two year's imprisonment for refusing to serve in the civil war; divorce; remarriage to a Jew; and the birth of two children. Mr. E. discusses rebuilding the Jewish community in Thessalonike?.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

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

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