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Victoria B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2839) interviewed by Joanne Weiner Rudof and Lucille B. Ritvo,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2839

Videotape testimony of Victoria B., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1927. She recalls a peaceful life in a large, extended Turkish family in Antwerp; German occupation in 1940; fleeing with her family via De Panne to Marseille; her father's return to Antwerp to oversee his business; attending school in Marseille; returning to Antwerp; obtaining protection from the Turkish government to temporarily escape deportation; hiding in a convent in La Hulpe; returning to Antwerp; hiding in a castle in Les Avins-en-Condroz (she was given false papers), then with her English teacher in Antwerp; traveling to Brussels with assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; living with a non-Jewish family friend, then with a Belgian family, and a baroness; her parents joining her in the baroness's home; and liberation by the United States troops. Dr. B. relates completing medical school in Brussels; marriage in 1954; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States.

Author/Creator
B., Victoria, 1927-
Published
New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1995
Interview Date
May 3, 1995.
Locale
Belgium
Antwerp (Belgium)
De Panne (Belgium)
Marseille (France)
Brussels (Belgium)
La Hulpe (Belgium)
Les Avins (Belgium)
Language
English
Copies
3 copies: Betacam SP master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Cite As
Victoria B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2839). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
 
View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1091675
Record last modified: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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