- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lina P., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece. She recalls her family's affluence; German invasion; ghettoization; acquiring false papers from a non-Jew; illegally traveling to Athens; benign Italian occupation; hiding after German occupation; betrayal by other Jews; arrest; with her siblings, refusing to escape, not wanting to leave their parents (one cousin escaped with his family and survived); deportation from Akharnaí to Birkenau; remaining with her sister (they never saw their mother again); learning of the gas chambers; locating their father and brother through other Greeks; a Greek friend arranging easier work for her father and brother; a German transferring her and her sister to their father's and brother's detail; her hospitalization; her father bribing hospital prisoners so she would not be "selected"; returning to her barrack; hearing of the crematoria uprising; her father's and brother's transport; re-hospitalization; her sister's transfer; the camp's evacuation; encountering Greek prisoners who had hidden; joining them in hiding (one was her future husband); liberation by Soviet troops; repatriation in October 1945; learning her father, brother and sister had survived; and their reunion. Mrs. P. discusses details of camp life and its organization, and the uniqueness of her family's survival. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- P., Lina, 1923-
- Published
- Thessalonikē, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- June 7, 1993.
- Locale
- Greece
Thessalonikē
Acharnai (Greece)
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Athens (Greece)
- Cite As
- Lina P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2787). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Ladino.
Associated material: Leon P. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-2788), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
