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Odette A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2092) interviewed by Régine Waintrater and Annette Wieviorka,

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Odette A., who was born in 1914. She recounts completing medical studies in Paris in 1939; working in Montargis; dismissal due to anti-Jewish laws; moving to Nice; organizing a network with her future husband to rescue Jewish children; assistance from OSE, the Joint, the Bishop of Nice, and other church and civic officials; hiding some 450 children; manufacturing false documents; learning her father was hiding and her mother and sister were deported (they did not return); imprisonment; interrogations; transfer to Drancy; and deportation to Birkenau. Dr. A. describes caring for the ill en route; quarantine; working with a Polish staff physician; living with prisoner doctors, nurses, and the Mengele twins; assignment to a "hospital" block; obtaining medication through Canada Kommando workers; sharing extra food; watching Mengele's selections; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer to Bergen-Belsen; working in a "hospital"; liberation by English troops; their shock at the conditions; continuing to care for sick prisoners; repatriation to Paris; reunion with her father; recovering in Château-d'Oex, Switzerland; joining her future husband in Nice; and their work for OSE aiding the children they had hidden. Dr. A. vividly details events in concentration camps, relations between prisoners, and her emotional state.
    Author/Creator
    A., Odette, 1914-1999.
    Published
    Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1992
    Interview Date
    May 22, 1992.
    Locale
    France
    Paris (France)
    Montargis (France)
    Nice (France)
    Château-d'Oex (Switzerland)
    Cite As
    Odette A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2092). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Waintrater, Régine, interviewer.
    Wieviorka, Annette, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in French.
    Related publication: Terre de détresse : Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen / Odette Abadi. -- Paris : Harmattan, c1995.
    Related publication: The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews / Susan Zuccotti. New York, NY : Basic Books, c1993.
    Associated material: Odette A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3201), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Associated material: Moussa A. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-3202), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Associated material: Odette and Moussa A. Holocaust testimony [with husband] (HVT-3203), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr., 8 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Hospitals in concentration camps.
    Postwar experiences.
    Mutual aid.
    False papers.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Resistance.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4286363
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
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