Maurice F. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3013
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Maurice F., who was raised in Thessalonike?, Greece, the younger of two sons. He recalls speaking French, Greek, and Ladino at home; university studies; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; joining EAM, the leftist resistance movement; ghettoization in 1943; escaping three days later with a partisan guide; joining EAM forces; collaborating with the British to blow up trains; being wounded in an action with Austrian troops; evacuation by comrades; treatment by EAM physicians (he suffers from the injury to the present time); being moved from village to village to avoid capture; liberation in 1944; returning to Thessalonike?; learning his parents had not returned from deportation (they had encouraged him and his brother to leave) and that his brother was in Palestine; and living in Athens. Mr. F. discusses difficulties obtaining permission to visit his brother since he had been in a communist resistance group; marriage to a survivor who had been in hiding; and cordial relations between Greek Christians and Jews.

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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