- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Jeanine C., who was born in 1928. She recounts her mother's death in 1932; living in a Jewish orphanage in Paris; German invasion; evacuation to Berck-sur-Mer; returning to Paris in 1940; dispersion of the orphans by UGIF to avoid deportations; her section's deportation to Drancy in July 1944; deportation to Birkenau in August; remaining together with fifteen EIF scouts (including Yvette L.); slave labor in Auschwitz; transfer to Kratzau in November; work in a munitions factory; receiving food from a supervisor; a friend giving birth and being transfered (mother and baby survived); liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945; traveling to Longuyon; receiving documents; transfer to a Paris hotel, then to Moissac; marriage to a non-Jew; their emigration to Israel in 1951; returning to France in 1952; and working for the CDJC and the war veterans organization. Mrs. C. discusses the importance of the EIF group in maintaining morale in camps; cultural conflicts between deportees, resistants, and veterans, including difficulties receiving benefits; continuing nightmares; and her daughter's hope that she writes a book. She details camp experiences naming many friends; her father's deportation (he perished); and her older sister remaining in France.
- Author/Creator
- C., Jeanine, 1928-
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1992
- Interview Date
- May 14, 1992.
- Locale
- France
Paris (France)
Berck-sur-Mer (France)
Longuyon (France)
Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne, France)
Israel
- Cite As
- Jeanine C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2090). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Wieviorka, Annette, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Associated material: Yvette L. Holocaust Testimony [friend] (HVT-2105), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
