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Marcel J. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2156) interviewed by Annette Wieviorka and Claudine Drame,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2156

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    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
    This testimony is in French.

    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., 25 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    False papers.
    Death marches.
    Mass killings.
    Italian occupation.
    Hiding.
    Aid by non-Jews.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4286560
    Record last modified:
    2018-05-29 11:47:00
    This page:
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