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Denise W. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2089) interviewed by Claudine Drame and Régine Waintrater,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2089

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Denise W., who was born in Paris. She recalls her parents were both from Poland; being sent to boarding school in Les Sables-d'Olonne after the outbreak of war; returning to Paris; her father's deportation; fleeing with her mother, grandmother, and brother to Nice; living in Aix-les-Bains; hiding in the mountains during a round-up; returning to Aix-les-Bains; arrest with her family; incarceration in Drancy; deportation to Birkenau; separation from her mother; being protected by the Czech head of her block; her mother's last visit; sorting clothes and luggage near the gas chambers; frequent illnesses; assistance from a French nurse; the death march to Ravensbrück; transfer to Malchow; evacuation; disappearance of the guards; traveling with the Soviet troops; returning to France; finding the French nurse who had helped her in camp; reunion with her father; learning her mother, grandmother, and brother had perished; and resuming school. Mrs. W. discusses reluctance to share her war experiences with her children and grandchildren; postwar depressions; and attribution of her survival to the hope of seeing her mother again.
    Author/Creator
    W., Denise.
    Published
    Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1992
    Interview Date
    June 6, 1992.
    Locale
    France
    Paris (France)
    Les Sables-d'Olonne (France)
    Nice (France)
    Aix-les-Bains (France)
    Cite As
    Denise W. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2089). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Drame, Claudine, interviewer.
    Waintrater, Régine, 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., 2 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hospitals in concentration camps.
    Child survivors.
    Postwar effects.
    Postwar experiences.
    Mutual aid.
    Survivor-child relations.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4286356
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-30 11:40:00
    This page:
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