- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Marcel J., who was born in Paris, France in 1924. He recounts fleeing to La Châtre at the outbreak of war; returning to Paris after German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; his father's initial refusal to flee due to his belief in the French government; convincing his father to cross to the unoccupied zone in June 1942; being joined by his mother in Nice; one year under Italian occupation; German occupation; their arrest; transfer to Drancy on September 25, 1943; deportation to Birkenau on October 28; separation from his mother (he never saw her again); transfer with his father to Auschwitz; mine work in Mysłowice (Fürstengrube); separation from his father (he never saw him again); volunteering as a carpenter in another section (Guenthergrube); and the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945. Mr. J. describes evacuation; feigning death during a mass killing; finding four friends still alive; being hidden by a Polish woman in Rybnik; liberation by Soviet troops; recuperating in Kraków; fleeing to Slovakia; traveling to Bucharest with help from the Joint; recuperating in a French hospital; and repatriation from Odesa to Marseille prior to the end of the war. He is the only survivor of a family of eighteen.
- Author/Creator
- J., Marcel, 1924-1999.
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1991
- Interview Date
- December 3, 1991.
- Locale
- France
Paris (France)
La Châtre (Indre, France)
Lyon (France)
Nice (France)
Slovakia
Rybnik (Katowice, Poland)
Kraków (Poland)
Odesa (Ukraine)
Bucharest (Romania)
Marseille (France)
- Cite As
- Marcel J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2156). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Wieviorka, Annette, interviewer.
Drame, Claudine, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
