- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Daniel C., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1913. He remembers his family of three brothers and one sister, who with his parents, perished in Auschwitz; cordial relations with non-Jews; his participation in athletics; work as a pharmacist; German occupation of Greece in 1941; and persecution of Jews beginning in 1942. Mr. C. describes deportation to Auschwitz in May 1943; horrendous conditions during the seven day trip; last seeing his parents upon leaving the box cars; working as a nurse in the hospital; losing that job and being beaten because he stole bread; work carrying corpses on stretchers; an uprising which included three of his present wife's brothers; evacuation in January 1945; the death march; transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk; and being unconscious when liberated by United States troops. He relates marriage in Athens in 1946; service in the Greek army; work for the Joint Distribution Committee; and emigration to the United States in 1951. Mr. C. discusses his 1982 trip to Salonika and Poland; saying Kaddish in Auschwitz; his feeling that he was "a dead man but is now alive;" and his physical strength and optimism which helped him survive.
- Author/Creator
- C., Daniel, 1913-
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1989
- Interview Date
- January 11, 1989.
- Locale
- Greece
Thessalonikē (Greece)
- Cite As
- Daniel C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1143). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Jacobson, Bob, interviewer.
Needle, Susan W., interviewer.