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Laura S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3008) interviewed by Jaša Almuli,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3008

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Laura S., who was raised in Thessalonikē, Greece in an affluent family. She recounts her marriage in 1938; her son's birth in 1939; her husband's military service in Albania in 1940; his return; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; a deportation in 1943; realizing that they would be deported next; smuggling themselves out of the ghetto; obtaining false papers; illegally traveling to Athens; posing as non-Jews; German occupation; escaping to Aleppo, then Palestine; receiving assistance from the Joint and WIZO; their return after the war; her husband's death fourteen years later; and moving to Athens with her son and his family.
Author/Creator: S., Laura, 1916-
Published: Athens, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
Interview Date: December 9, 1994.
Locale: Greece
Thessalonikē
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Athens (Greece)
Aleppo (Syria)
Palestine
Cite As: Laura S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3008). 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 (58 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Aid by non-Jews.
False papers.
Hiding.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Greece--Thessalonikē. Family. Husband and wife. Mothers and sons. Escapes. Thessalonikē (Greece) Athens (Greece) Aleppo (Syria) Palestine. Oral histories (document genres) S., Laura,--1916- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Wizo.

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/4290062
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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