Yvonne B. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Yvonne B., a Catholic, who was born in Pipaix, Belgium in 1918. She recounts attending public school; completing advanced degrees in nursing school in Tournai; mobilization as a nurse; assignment to a military hospital in Nieuwpoort; evacuation to Avilley, Nantes, then a village in France; caring for a friend's five young daughters; transfer to Rochefort; working as a head nurse; returning to Belgium two months later; working at a hospital; hiding resistance members; the Red Cross and a local nobleman arranging for them to hide Jewish children; helping transport twenty-one Jewish children from Ath; hiding a Jewish physician; receiving supplies from the Red Cross; a German raid in 1944; hiding some of the children but having to surrender others; and liberation by United States troops. Ms. B. notes her brothers' participation in the Resistance; never being able to learn the fate of the children who were taken; saving over one hundred Jewish children in the hospital; and continuing contact with some of them.
Extent and Medium
3 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
- B., Yvonne, -- 1918-
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Belgian.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium.
- Rescuers.
Places
- Pipaix (Belgium.
- Belgium.
- Nantes (France)
- Avilley (France)
- Nieuwpoort (West Flanders, Belgium)
- Tournai (Belgium)
- Ath (Belgium)
- Rochefort (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat