Alice I. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Alice I., who was born in Rhodes, Italy (presently Greece), a twin and one of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; their affluence; cordial relations with Italians; attending an Italian school; expulsion in 1938 due to racial laws; attending a clandestine school; many Jews emigrating; her two older sisters living with uncles in Brussels and Paris; Allied bombings; her sisters returning because her uncles believing it safer in Rhodes; living in Ialysos for a month to escape bombings; German occupation; round-up in July 1943; a friend (an Italian officer) offering to hide her, her twin brother, and younger sister; her mother refusing, wanting to keep the family together; Italian priests and nuns bringing them food; transfer to Piraeus, then to Haidari; her teacher's death; deportation with her family by cattle car to Auschwitz/Birkenau in September 1944; separation by gender; selection with her mother, brother, and younger sister; a German moving her to the group with her older sisters; the older of her sisters protecting them; forming a group with other Rhodians, including her cousins; the death of the younger of her sisters; her older sister's hospitalization; sleeping with her until the doctor would not allow it (she never saw her sister again); and a Greek prisoner helping her join a group for transfer in November.

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