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Soula M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2305) interviewed by Nancy Freed and Nathan Wolkowitz,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2305

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Soula M., a Greek Evangelist, who was born in Katerinē, Greece in 1924. She recounts German invasion; her family hiding British soldiers in their house; their arrest in July 1942; beatings during interrogations; transfer to prison in Salonika, then Banjica, Serbia; severe beatings by Croatian guards; transfer to Birkenau; slave labor digging ditches; sharing stolen food with other prisoners; dreaming she should volunteer for transfer; volunteering for a labor camp; transfer to Eberswalde; escaping with friends during a death march; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. M. describes meeting other Greek survivors, including her future husband (a Jewish-Greek survivor), in Germany; their return to Greece; marriage; converting to Judaism; and emigration to the United States.
Author/Creator: M., Soula, 1924-
Published: Houston, Tex. : Holocaust Education Center and Memorial Museum of Houston, 1992
Interview Date: July 24, 1992.
Locale: Greece
Katerinē (Greece)
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Cite As: Soula M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2305). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Freed, Nancy, interviewer.
Wolkowitz, Nathan, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 37 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Resistance.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Greek. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Greece. Forced labor. Dreams. Death marches. Escapes. Jewish converts. Greece. Katerinē (Greece) Thessalonikē (Greece) Oral histories (document genres) Concentration camp inmates. Proselytizing--Judaism. Conversion--Judaism. M., Soula,--1924- Eberswalde (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Banjica (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4287282
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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