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Irene K., Holocaust testimony (HVT-1938) interviewed by Susan Lang and Elaine Tannenbaum,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1938

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Irene K., who was born in Strasbourg, France in 1920. She describes her family's restaurant; good relations with non-Jews; attending lycee for nurses' training; evacuation to Limoges in September 1939; her brother's escape to join the Free French in North Africa; marriage in 1941; working for OSE to hide and assist Jewish children; her husband's work with the underground; her daughter's birth in 1942; arrest and escape when the train station was bombed; and hiding with her husband, child and mother-in-law for a year with friends in the underground. Mrs. K. recounts working with the Red Cross after the massacre in Oradour-sur-Glane in June 1944 and secretly taking photographs which she shows. Mrs. K. dedicates her testimony to those who hid her family.
Author/Creator: K., Irene, 1920-
Published: Ventnor, N.J. : Federation of Jewish Agencies of Atlantic County/Stockton State College, Holocaust Oral History Project, 1992
Interview Date: October 29, 1992.
Locale: France
Strasbourg (France)
Limoges (France)
Vichy (France)
Cite As: Irene K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1938). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Lang, Susan, interviewer.
Tannenbaum, Elaine, interviewer.
Notes: Associated material: Rabbi David K. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-1902), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 13 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
Mass killings.
Resistance.
False papers.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Husband and wife. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. Mothers and daughters. Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre, Oradour-sur-Glane, France, 1944. Escapes--France. France. Strasbourg (France) Limoges (France) Vichy (France) Oral histories (document genres) K., Irene,--1920- World Union OSE.

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/1072620
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:32:00
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