- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Yvette L., who was born in 1935 in Thessalonikē, Greece and her brother, Sabetai B., who was born there in 1931. They recall their father's export business; his arrest and release after German invasion; a Polish refugee who warned them about Jewish killings in concentration camps; only their mother giving him credence; ghettoization; the family's escape in March 1943 with assistance from a non-Jew; traveling to Lamia, then Katerinē; being taken in by strangers; returning to the ghetto five days later; leaving to live with a non-Jew (he obtained false papers for them); their rescuer bringing them to Kozanē, his native village; obtaining permission to travel from partisans in Sérvia; staying with a client in Tírnavos, then arriving at Italian-occupied Larisa; traveling to Athens via Volos, then to Iōannina; local Jews scoffing at their warnings; obtaining permission to go to Albania; staying in a village, then Tirana; renting a ship to go to Italy, then traveling to Egypt; staying in Sinai, then Cairo; and returning to Thessalonikē after the war. They discuss the deportation of thirty-five relatives (three returned) and why more Jews did not escape from Thessalonikē.
- Author/Creator
- B., Sabetai, 1931-
- Published
- Athens, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
- Interview Date
- December 13, 1994.
- Locale
- Greece
Thessalonikē
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Lamia (Greece)
Katerinē (Greece)
Kozanē (Greece)
Larisa (Greece)
Tírnavos (Greece)
Sérvia (Greece)
Volos (Greece)
Athens (Greece)
Iōannina (Greece)
Tirana (Albania)
Italy
Sinai (Egypt)
Cairo (Egypt)
- Cite As
- Sabetai B. and Yvette L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3014). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
- Notes
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Parts of this testimony are in French.
