Elvira F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Elvira F., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1918. She recalls attending an Italian school; working in a bookstore; marriage in 1943; her brother escaping to the partisans; she and her husband hiding with a non-Jew; escaping to their hosts' parents' home in a village; fleeing to Kozanē, then Polikástanon; assistance from ELAS; helping them, but not participating in military incursions; posing as non-Jews using false papers; her husband's arrest and one month imprisonment (the Germans didn't know he was Jewish); liberation; returning to Thessalonikē; learning her parents and entire extended family, except one cousin, were deported and killed; living in a village; and her husband's death. Ms. F. notes her son's academic career in Cyprus; her brother's emigration to the United States; and illness and loneliness resulting from the war.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
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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
People
- F., Elvira, -- 1918-
Corporate Bodies
- ELAS (Military organization)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Greece.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Husband and wife.
- Escapes.
- Hiding.
- Partisans.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Postwar experiences.
- Postwar effects.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- False papers.
Places
- Polikástanon (Greece) BGN 0 Voy, LOC.
- Thessalonikē (Greece)
- Kozanē (Greece)
- Greece.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat