Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Raphael E., who was raised in Lyon, France. He describes the formative influence of participating in scouting; fleeing with his older brother after German invasion in 1940; returning to Lyon after the armistice; graduating from technical school in 1942; participating in Resistance activities through the scouts; working with Sixième and Organisation juive de combat; fabricating false documents; arrest in January 1944; imprisonment in Montluc; torture during interrogations; transfer to Drancy; meeting and falling in love with his future wife; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor manufacturing detonators in the Union Kommando; friendships with other French speakers; brief hospitalization; arranging for the transfer of his future wife to a better kommando; the death march to Gleiwitz; transfer to Gross-Rosen; train evacuation; briefly escaping with a friend (he was executed) in Zwickau; transfer to Dachau, then Waldlager; train evacuation; a mass killing; liberation by United States troops in Tutzing; returning to Paris; reunion with his family in Lyon; and marriage in 1948. Mr. E. notes that he and his wife did not discuss their experiences until recently; his daughter's sensitivity to their silence; the importance of luck and friends to his survival; and involvement in Amicale d'Auschwitz.
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1993
- Interview Date
- January 5, 1993.
- Locale
- France
Paris (France)
Lyon (France)
Zwickau (Germany)
Tutzing (Germany) - Cite As
- Raphael E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2655). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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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 (1 hr., 56 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hospitals in concentration camps
False papers.
Resistance.
Mutual aid.
Survivor-child relations.
Postwar experiences.
Mass killings. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Forced labor. Friendship. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French. Oral histories (document genres) Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Death marches. Paris (France) Lyon (France) Zwickau (Germany) Tutzing (Germany) E., Raphael,--1925- Montluc (Prison : France) Waldlager V (Concentration camp) Amicale d'Auschwitz. Éclaireurs israélites de France. Organisation juive de combat (France) Drancy (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288501
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4288501
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