Razon S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3567
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Razon S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1919, one of five children. He recounts attending a Jewish school; working in agriculture; one brother's emigration to Palestine; military draft in 1939; battles against Italian forces; military collapse; returning home; learning his mother had died; working as a shoe maker; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing to the countryside; working in villages; joining the partisans in 1942; participating in raids; escaped Allied POWs joining them; visiting his father, two brothers, and sister in the ghetto; a futile attempt to convince them to join him; being injured by a cannon; recuperating with a family in a small town (he had false papers); liberation; returning home; working in a kitchen for returning survivors; vainly seeking his family on lists of survivors; moving to Athens; emigration to Israel; marriage to a Greek camp survivor in 1948; and a warm reception when they visited the village where he had recovered from his wound during the war.

Extent and Medium

4 videocassettes

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., Razon, -- 1919-

Subjects

  • Prisoners of war -- Greece.
  • Jews -- Greece -- Thessalonikē.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Greece.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • False papers.
  • Hiding.
  • Partisans.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Greek.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.

Places

  • Thessalonikē (Greece)
  • Athens (Greece)
  • Greece.
  • Salonika ghetto.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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