- 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
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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.
