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.
- 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.
- Notes
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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
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4288771
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