Sabetai B. and Yvette L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Yvette L., who was born in 1935 in Thessalonike?, Greece and her brother, Sabetai B., who was born there in 1931. They recall their father's export business; his arrest and release after German invasion; a Polish refugee who warned them about Jewish killings in concentration camps; only their mother giving him credence; ghettoization; the family's escape in March 1943 with assistance from a non-Jew; traveling to Lamia, then Katerine?; being taken in by strangers; returning to the ghetto five days later; leaving to live with a non-Jew (he obtained false papers for them); their rescuer bringing them to Kozane?, his native village; obtaining permission to travel from partisans in Se?rvia; staying with a client in Ti?rnavos, then arriving at Italian-occupied Larisa; traveling to Athens via Volos, then to Io?annina; local Jews scoffing at their warnings; obtaining permission to go to Albania; staying in a village, then Tirana; renting a ship to go to Italy, then traveling to Egypt; staying in Sinai, then Cairo; and returning to Thessalonike? after the war. They discuss the deportation of thirty-five relatives (three returned) and why more Jews did not escape from Thessalonike?.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- B., Sabetai, -- 1931-
- L., Yvette, -- 1935-
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- False papers.
- Hiding.
- Italian occupation.
- Partisans.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Escapes.
- Jews -- Greece -- Thessalonikē.
- Family.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Greece.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Men.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Places
- Tirana (Albania)
- Italy.
- Iōannina (Greece)
- Cairo (Egypt)
- Sinai (Egypt)
- Salonika ghetto.
- Tírnavos (Greece)
- Larisa (Greece)
- Sérvia (Greece)
- Lamia (Greece)
- Greece.
- Kozanē (Greece)
- Katerinē (Greece)
- Volos (Greece)
- Athens (Greece)
- Thessalonikē (Greece)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat