- Summary
- A follow-up, directed videotape testimony of Odette A., who was born in Paris, France in 1914. She describes childhood in an assimilated family; antisemitic incidents which caused her to define herself as Jewish; completing medical school; volunteering in Perpignan for the international sanitation committee at the end of the Spanish Civil War; working as a government physician in Montargis, where she met her future husband; dismissal due to anti-Jewish laws; returning to Paris; working in Jewish dispensaries; arrest of her mother and sister when they smuggled themselves to the unoccupied zone to join her father (she never saw them again); their transfer to Drancy and Auschwitz; smuggling herself to Nice to join her future husband; obtaining several jobs; and eventually caring for Jewish children for OSE. Dr. A. notes she did not speak of her early life in her previous testimony because "deportation is like being born - there is nothing before it. The woman who lived before is a different person."
- Author/Creator
- A., Odette, 1914-1999.
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1995
- Interview Date
- April 18, 1995.
- Locale
- France
Paris (France)
Nice (France)
Perpignan (France)
Montargis (France)
- Cite As
- Odette A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3201). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Wieviorka, Annette, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Related publication: Terre de détresse : Birkenau / Bergen-Belsen, / Odette Abadi. -- Paris : Harmattan, c1995.
Related publication: The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews / Susan Zuccotti. New York, NY : Basic Books, c1993.
Associated material: Odette A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2092), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Moussa A. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-3202), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Odette and Moussa A. Holocaust testimony [with husband] (HVT-3203), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
