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Elias A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3158) interviewed by Abraham Huberman,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-3158

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Elias A., who was born in Athens, Greece in 1930. He recounts his parents' emigration to Argentina; his brother's birth; his father's death; his mother and brother returning to Athens prior to his birth; his mother's remarriage; the births of two stepbrothers; their poverty; working from age seven; benign Italian occupation; German occupation; his mother paying non-Jews to hide them; moving to his grandparents; his employer hiding him and his stepbrothers; his older brother and cousin joining the partisans; his stepfather retrieving his sons (Elias A.'s stepbrothers) to live with him; liberation; learning his mother and grandmother had been deported (they did not return); danger during the civil war both from battles and because his brother had been a Communist partisan; illegal emigration with his brother and cousins to Palestine in 1945; military service in the Israel-Arab War; and emigration with his brother to Argentina in 1950 to join two uncles. He shows photographs.
Author/Creator: A., Elias, 1930-
Published: Buenos Aires, Argentina : Fundacion "Memoria del Holocausto", 1994
Interview Date: July 15, 1994.
Locale: Greece
Athens (Greece)
Palestine
Cite As: Elias A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3158). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Huberman, Abraham, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in Spanish.

Physical Details

Language: Spanish
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 44 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
Italian occupation.
Aid by non-Jews.
Hiding.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Brothers. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Greece. Athens (Greece) Greece--History--Civil War, 1944-1949--Personal narratives. Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Oral histories (document genres) A., Elias,--1930-

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/4290829
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
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