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Victoria B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2775) interviewed by Jaša Almuli,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2775

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Victoria B., who was born in Athens, Greece in 1942. She recounts a Greek policeman advising her mother to leave her two children and niece when he arrested her in March 1944; their non-Jewish neighbor posing as their grandmother; her aunt taking them to hide in the countryside; her aunt agreeing to let her parents' non-Jewish friends take her (Victoria) to their home; learning later that her aunt sent her sister and cousins to Palestine; her mother's return in 1945; not recognizing her; gradually building a relationship with her; her mother's remarriage; moving to Thessalonikē; she and her mother visiting her sister in Israel in 1951; marriage; and her husband's death in 1982. Ms. B. discusses the loss of many immediate relatives in concentration camps; admiration for her aunt who saved six children; and feeling she had two mothers and one father (her foster father, since she did not know her biological father).
Author/Creator: B., Victoria, 1942-
Published: Thessalonikē, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
Interview Date: May 31, 1993.
Locale: Greece
Athens (Greece)
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Israel
Cite As: Victoria B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2775). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Ladino and Greek.

Physical Details

Language: Ladino Greek, Modern (1453- )
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 1/2 in. VHS dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 5 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Foster parents. Greece. Athens (Greece) Thessalonikē (Greece) Israel. Oral histories (document genres) B., Victoria,--1942-

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288767
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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