- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Hanna K., who was born in Poland in 1925. She recounts her family's emigration to France due to antisemitism; living in Belleville, Montreuil, then Levallois, a leftist community; living with a cousin in Nantes and attending boarding school in 1939; her father's draft; German invasion; returning to Paris in May 1940; "discovering" she was Jewish; her father's arrest in October 1941; his internment in Drancy and deportation in May 1942 (he perished); hiding with her mother in Bois de Vincennes in July 1942 after being warned of a round-up by non-Jews; fleeing to Fontenay after a warning from the concierge; obtaining false papers; joining the Resistance in August; underground activities with Henri Krasucki; fleeing with her mother to Levallois, then to another town in April 1943; arrests of most of her Resistance colleagues; joining FTP; meetings with Marcel Rayman; transporting bombs and stealing weapons; frequent communist indoctrination; and liberation in August 1944. Mrs. K. describes becoming a Zionist; her mother's death in 1948; moving to Belgium in 1958; and returning to France in 1968. She discusses the importance to her survival of being with her mother and many incidents of Resistance activities.
- Author/Creator
- K., Hanna, 1925-
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1994
- Interview Date
- March 11, 1994.
- Locale
- France
Poland
Belleville (Paris, France)
Montreuil (France)
Levallois-Perret (France)
Paris (France)
Nantes (France)
Bois de Vincennes (Vincennes, France)
Fontenay-sous-Bois (France)
- Cite As
- Hanna K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2847). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Borlant, Henri, interviewer.
Wieviorka, Rachel, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
