Laura S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Laura S., who was raised in Thessalonike?, Greece in an affluent family. She recounts her marriage in 1938; her son's birth in 1939; her husband's military service in Albania in 1940; his return; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; a deportation in 1943; realizing that they would be deported next; smuggling themselves out of the ghetto; obtaining false papers; illegally traveling to Athens; posing as non-Jews; German occupation; escaping to Aleppo, then Palestine; receiving assistance from the Joint and WIZO; their return after the war; her husband's death fourteen years later; and moving to Athens with her son and his family.
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
People
- S., Laura, -- 1916-
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- Wizo.
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Hiding.
- False papers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Escapes.
- Mothers and sons.
- Husband and wife.
- Family.
- Jews -- Greece -- ThessalonikeĚ.
Places
- Aleppo (Syria)
- Palestine.
- Salonika ghetto
- ThessalonikeĚ (Greece)
- Athens (Greece)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat