Rachel A. Holocaust testimony

A continuation of the videotape testimony of Rachel A., who recalls meeting her father in Zemun; traveling to Belgrade in June 1941; staying with Rafael A.'s parents (her future husband); traveling to Niš, then Pirot; living with her grandparents; Rafael A.'s parents joining them; living a year under Bulgarian occupation; Rafael's arrival; his draft for forced labor; visiting relatives in Sofia; attempting as a group to join partisans in Yugoslavia in September 1942; arrest and interrogation; her father bringing her food; a trial three months later; her release; escaping with her sister and father during a police search in March 1943; hiding with a farmer; a friend from Sofia retrieving her sister; contact with partisans; hiding in a partisan safe house; traveling to Sofia; living with relatives; reunion with Rafael, who had escaped; her mother's arrival after escaping; traveling to Skopje; being smuggled to Albania; arrest by Albanian police; release of the women six weeks later (the men one month thereafter); living as Muslims in Kavajë; and escaping to Bari via Durrës.

2 videocassettes