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Sarika N. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2786) interviewed by Jaša Almuli,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2786

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Sarika N., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1926. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; attending Greek public school; German invasion; her father's deportation for forced labor (she never saw him again); ghettoization in 1943; marriage to her boyfriend, hoping to escape with him; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with her mother, husband, and younger sister; separation with her sister from her husband and mother (she never saw them again); slave labor; assistance from a non-Jewish political prisoner; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); a privileged position in the infirmary, then in Canada Kommando; trading clothes and valuables for food to share with friends; the Sonderkommando uprising; a death march and train transport to Ravensbrück, then Malchow; slave labor in a munitions factory; returning to Thessalonikē after liberation; remarriage; and finding her sister's name in camp records on a recent visit to Auschwitz.
Author/Creator: N., Sarika, 1926-
Published: Thessalonikē, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
Interview Date: May 29, 1993.
Locale: Greece
Thessalonikē
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Cite As: Sarika N. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2786). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Ladino.

Physical Details

Language: Ladino
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 52 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Mutual aid.
Aid by non-Jews.
Concentration camps Revolts.
Husband Death.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Greece--Thessalonikē. Forced labor. Sisters. Death marches. Greece. Thessalonikē (Greece) Oral histories (document genres) N., Sarika,--1926- Birkenau (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Malchow (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/4288786
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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