- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Serge B., who was born in France in 1921. He recalls his parents were Russian immigrants; their assimilated, secular life in Paris; not feeling Jewish until German invasion; his father's escape from the July 1942 round-up with help from a police friend; being sent with his siblings to live with their uncle in Cannes; joining the Resistance; becoming head of his group; arrest in 1943; violent interrogations; the Gestapo discovering he was Jewish; transfer to a prison in Nice, then Drancy; digging an escape tunnel with fourteen prisoners; discovery of the tunnel; confinement with the fourteen; deportation east; escape from the train with nineteen others; walking alone to Bar-le-Duc; help from a pastor; traveling to Paris; going to the address of a friend's fiancé; hiding; Resistance activities; obtaining false papers; and reunion with his wife (she was protected by her Turkish citizenship). Mr. B. attributes the escape and tunnel building to their determination and hope.
- Author/Creator
- B., Serge, 1921-
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1992
- Interview Date
- June 5, 1992.
- Locale
- France
Paris (France)
Nice (France)
Bar-le-Duc (France)
- Cite As
- Serge B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2097). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Drame, Claudine, interviewer.
Lacombe, Liliane, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
