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Elvira F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2778) interviewed by Jaša Almuli,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2778

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Elvira F., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1918. She recalls attending an Italian school; working in a bookstore; marriage in 1943; her brother escaping to the partisans; she and her husband hiding with a non-Jew; escaping to their hosts' parents' home in a village; fleeing to Kozanē, then Polikástanon; assistance from ELAS; helping them, but not participating in military incursions; posing as non-Jews using false papers; her husband's arrest and one month imprisonment (the Germans didn't know he was Jewish); liberation; returning to Thessalonikē; learning her parents and entire extended family, except one cousin, were deported and killed; living in a village; and her husband's death. Ms. F. notes her son's academic career in Cyprus; her brother's emigration to the United States; and illness and loneliness resulting from the war.
Author/Creator: F., Elvira, 1918-
Published: Thessalonikē, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
Interview Date: June 12, 1993.
Locale: Greece
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Kozanē (Greece)
Polikástanon (Greece) BGN 0 Voy, LOC
Cite As: Elvira F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2778). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in French.

Physical Details

Language: French
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (33 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Partisans.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Greece. Escapes. Husband and wife. Greece. Thessalonikē (Greece) Kozanē (Greece) Polikástanon (Greece) BGN 0 Voy, LOC. Oral histories (document genres) F., Elvira,--1918- ELAS (Military organization)

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/4288772
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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