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Mois E. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2777) interviewed by Jaša Almuli,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2777

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Mois E., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1920. He recounts his father's death; attending a Jewish school; involvement of his sister and brother-in-law in the Communist Party; participating in a communist youth group; German occupation; refusing German orders to register as a Jew and report for forced labor; hiding with his mother, sister, and brother-in-law in near-by sanitariums with assistance from communists; moving after a Greek policeman warned them; joining the EAM partisans (his mother, sister, and brother-in-law were sent elsewhere); working as a courier using false papers; killing captured Germans; helping Jewish friends escape and hide; returning to Thessalonikē after liberation; learning of concentration camps from returning survivors; marriage to a non-Jew who had helped him; two year's imprisonment for refusing to serve in the civil war; divorce; remarriage to a Jew; and the birth of two children. Mr. E. discusses rebuilding the Jewish community in Thessalonikē.
Author/Creator: E., Mois, 1920-
Published: Thessalonikē, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
Interview Date: June 8, 1993.
Locale: Greece
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Cite As: Mois E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2777). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Ladino.

Physical Details

Language: Ladino
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 1/2 in. VHS dub.; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (55 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hiding.
False papers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Partisans.
Postwar experiences.
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--Greece. Mothers and sons. Brothers and sisters. Interfaith marriage. Greece. Thessalonikē (Greece) Greece--History--Civil War, 1944-1949--Personal narratives. Oral histories (document genres) E., Mois,--1920- Ethnikon Apeleutherōtikon Metōpon (Greece)

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/4288771
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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