Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Sora M., who was born in Danzig, Germany in 1928. She recalls living near Brest-Litovsk; moving to Paris with her parents in 1930; antisemitic incidents; visiting Poland with her mother in 1937; outbreak of war in 1939; evacuation to Mers-les-Bains; living in an OSE home on the Riviera while attending school in Boulouris; German invasion; returning to Paris in September 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; seeing her father in Yonne (he escaped from Pithiviers); incarceration in the Vélodrome d'hiver with her mother on July 16, 1942; escaping; hiding with non-Jewish friends; denouncement and imprisonment in the Palais de Justice on May 24, 1944; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Birkenau on May 30; beatings and slave labor; the Sonderkommando revolt; hanging of an escapee; her friend Claire's transfer; separation from her mother; transfer to Auschwitz; finding her mother during the death march in January 1945; transfer to Gleiwitz, Buchenwald, then Bergen-Belsen; reunion with Claire (she perished); liberation by British troops on April 15; recuperating in Belsen; and returning to Paris on May 24. Mrs. M. discusses illnesses resulting from her experiences; continuing nightmares; the importance of being with her mother; and reluctance to share her experience with non-survivors, including her own children, until her mother's recent death.
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1993
- Interview Date
- November 24, 1993.
- Locale
- France
Yonne (France)
Poland
Germany
Gdańsk (Poland)
Paris (France)
Riviera (France)
Mers-les-Bains (France)
Boulouris (France) - Cite As
- Sora M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2826). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Physical Details
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (3 hr., 34 min.)
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hiding.
False papers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Survivor-child relations.
Concentration camps Revolts.
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--Children. Forced labor. Mothers and daughters. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Noncitizens--France. Aliens--France. Escapes. Friendship. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Nightmares. Death marches. Yonne (France) Poland. Germany. Gdańsk (Poland) Paris (France) Riviera (France) Mers-les-Bains (France) Boulouris (France) Oral histories (document genres) M., Sora,--1928- Vélodrome d'hiver (Paris, France) World Union OSE. Palais de justice (Paris, France) Drancy (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
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/4288923
- Record last modified:
- 2019-03-11 17:35:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4288923
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