Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Roger C., who was born in Paris, France in 1919. He recounts the important influence of scouting; apprenticeship as an electrician; enlisting in the French military; retreating to Tarbes; demobilization; working as an electrician; his family and fiancee joining him; creating false papers for the Resistance in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon; an unsuccessful attempt to illegally enter Spain; joining Sixième, a network rescuing Jewish children in Rodez, Clermont Ferrand, and Aix-les-Bains; arrest in Lyon in May 1943; transfer to Montluc prison; digging graves for executed prisoners; transfer to Drancy, then Auschwitz/Birkenau in June 1943; working as an electrician in Monowitz; fasting on Yom Kippur; a brief hospital stay; contacts with Polish partisans; carrying a friend during the death march to Gleiwitz; train evacuation to Dora; sabotaging electrical work; sadistic public hangings; escaping the death march from Ravensbrück; liberation by Soviet troops; moving to the American zone; a warm reception in Brussels; returning to Paris via Lille; and reunion with his family. Mr. C. reflects on intergroup relations in concentration camps; the importance of friendship and helping each other to survive; lack of interest in his experience when he returned; and the importance of educating young people about these events.
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1993
- Interview Date
- March 9, 1993.
- Locale
- France
Lille (France)
Paris (France)
Tarbes (France)
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France)
Rodez (France)
Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Aix-les-Bains (France)
Lyon (France)
Brussels (Belgium) - Cite As
- Roger C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2645). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (3 hr., 32 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Resistance.
Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Mutual aid.
Postwar effects.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, French. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Forced labor. Death marches. Sabotage. Friendship. Escapes. Lille (France) France. Paris (France) Tarbes (France) Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (France) Rodez (France) Clermont-Ferrand (France) Aix-les-Bains (France) Lyon (France) Brussels (Belgium) Oral histories (document genres) C., Roger,--1919- Montluc (Prison : France) Drancy (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Dora (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/4288477
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4288477
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