Juliette D. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 4066
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Juliette D., a Catholic, who was born in Sougné-Remouchamps, Belgium in 1917. She recalls attending school in Aywaille, then boarding school in Liège; attending nursing school; marriage in 1938; German invasion; enlisting with the Belgian Red Cross; caring for the wounded; passing letters among French and English soldiers; returning home; working with the resistance; escaping through France to Spain with her mother and sister; arrest by Spanish police; expulsion to Saint-Gaudens (they had false French papers); joining a resistance group; smuggling people to Montauban and Spain; arrest in Madrid; six weeks imprisonment; a chaplain smuggling her to Portugal; returning to Spain to continue resistance work; traveling to Brussels with the Red Cross after liberation; learning her husband had died in Buchenwald and her mother and brother had been in concentration camps because of their resistance work; working in France with UNRRA; and marriage to a Jew. Ms. D. notes not discussing war experiences within her family.

Extent and Medium

2 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

  • D., Juliette, -- 1917-

Corporate Bodies

  • Croix-Rouge de Belgique.
  • International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  • United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

Subjects

  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Belgian.
  • Women.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Spain.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Spanish.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Interfaith marriage.
  • False papers.

Places

  • Belgium.
  • Sougné-Remouchamps (Belgium)
  • Aywaille (Belgium)
  • Liège (Belgium)
  • Spain.
  • Saint-Gaudens (France)
  • Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne, France)
  • Madrid (Spain)
  • Portugal.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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