Maurice F. Holocaust testimony
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
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- F., Maurice, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Ethnikon Apeleutherōtikon Metōpon (Greece)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Jews -- Greece -- Thessalonikē.
- Resistance.
- Hiding.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Places
- Salonika ghetto.
- Athens (Greece)
- Thessalonikē (Greece)