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Adolphe F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2648) interviewed by Josette Zarka,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2648

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Adolphe F., who was born in Paris, France in 1926. He recounts a sheltered childhood; his parents' unionism and communism; he and his parents hiding with a French family in July 1942; fleeing with an uncle to Vierzon, using false papers; their denouncement; imprisonment in Orléans; transfer to Pithiviers, Drancy, and then back to Pithiviers; deportation as hostages to Cosel, then a labor camp; brief escapes to obtain food; transfer to Blechhammer in December 1942; beatings, slave labor, appels, and public hangings; sharing food received from his parents; assistance from a German official; working with British POWs; a Czech worker giving him extra food; helping each other during the death march to Gross-Rosen in January 1945; transfer to Buchenwald, then Langenstein; hiding to avoid work; escaping the evacuation with a few friends; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization in Magdeburg; repatriation to Paris; reunion with his parents; and a difficult physical and emotional recovery. Mr. F. eloquently discusses various prisoner roles and responses in camps; the solidarity of the French prisoners and friendships which enabled him to survive and sustained him after the war; joining an organization of Blechhammer survivors in 1965; and relations with his children.
    Author/Creator
    F., Adolphe, 1926-
    Published
    Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1993
    Interview Date
    March 8, 1993.
    Locale
    Germany
    Poland
    France
    Paris (France)
    Vierzon (France)
    Orléans (France)
    Magdeburg (Germany)
    Cite As
    Adolphe F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2648). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Zarka, Josette, 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)
    Child survivors.
    Hiding.
    False papers.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Mutual aid.
    Death marches.
    Postwar effects.
    Postwar experiences.
    Survivor-child relations.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288483
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:31:00
    This page:
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