Achille D. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Achille D., a non-Jew, who was born in Harelbeke, Belgium in 1924, one of two children. He recounts being orphaned when he was eight; living with loving grandparents; attending school to become a textile engineer in Kortrijk (Courtrai); distributing Resistance publications and doing reconnaisance for the Front de l'indeĚpendance; arrest in April 1942; incarceration in Courtrai prison; a public trial; a five-month prison sentence; incarceration in St. Gilles and Merxplas; receiving Red Cross packages; visits from his aunt; attending classes; release in August; continuing to work with the Front de l'indeĚpendance; postwar recognition as a Resistant; receiving compensation for arthritis resulting from his imprisonment; and participating in an organization of former political prisoners.
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
- D., Achille, -- 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Belgian.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Resistance.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
Places
- Belgium.
- Harelbeke (Belgium)
- Kortrijk (Belgium)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat