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Roger S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2098) interviewed by Claudine Drame and Dorit Welt,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2098

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Roger S., who was born in Paris, France in 1915. He recalls two years military service beginning in 1936; recall in 1939; discharge in Metz in 1940; imprisonment in Cherche-Midi in 1941; transfer to Clairvaux in 1942; deportation to Drancy in July; distributing coffee, cleaning rooms, and taking care of children deported from Pithiviers; joining a group building an escape tunnel; interrogation and deportation after the Germans discovered it; nineteen of them escaping from the train (only one was eventually recaptured); assistance from many Resistants and other non-Jews; traveling with false papers to Lyon; and reunion with his family. Mr. S. relates his friends' escape stories, their postwar reunions, and reflects on the differences in each survivor's experiences.
Author/Creator: S., Roger, 1915-
Published: Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1992
Interview Date: June 5, 1992.
Locale: France
Paris (France)
Lyon (France)
Metz (France)
Cite As: Roger S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2098). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Drame, Claudine, interviewer.
Welt, Dorit, interviewer.
Notes: 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 (1 hr., 33 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Jews.
Concentration camps Underground movements.
False papers.
Mutual aid.
Hiding.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, French. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. France. Paris (France) Lyon (France) Metz (France) Oral histories (document genres) S., Roger,--1915- Centrale de Clairvaux. Drancy (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/1100268
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1100268

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