- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Pepo S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1916, one of six children. He recalls attending French and Jewish schools; participation in Maccabi; his father's death in 1931; leaving school to work in the family business; German invasion; his brother's military service and resulting combat injury; working for the Jewish council; helping Jews escape; distributing food from the Red Cross in the Baron Hirsch quarter; observing abuses by the Jewish police, including Vital Hasson and Edgar Chounio; deportation to Birkenau; slave labor with one brother; witnessing his murder; receiving a note from his sister describing losing hope after surgery in a pseudo-medical experimentation block; giving Hebrew lessons to a prisoner official who prevented his transfer to the experimentation block; transfer to Warsaw; assignment to the kitchen; a death march to Dachau; transfer to another camp; slave labor in a factory; liberation from a transport by United States troops on April 28, 1945; marriage in Thessalonikē in 1946; and the births of three children. Mr. S. notes he is the sole survivor of his immediate and extended family and sings a song from the Salonika ghetto as well a wedding hymn.
- Author/Creator
- S., Pepo, 1916-1995.
- Published
- Thessalonikē, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- June 7, 1993.
- Locale
- Greece
Thessalonikē
Thessalonikē (Greece)
- Cite As
- Pepo S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2790). 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.
