- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Simone C., who was born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1922. She recalls fleeing to Paris in 1933 when the Gestapo came to arrest her father and brother; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; her older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; German invasion; her father volunteering for the French military; fleeing with her mother and younger brother to Toulouse; their return to Paris; her internment in the Vélodrome d'Hiver, then Gurs; her mother and brother moving to be near her; a guard allowing her to visit them; not returning; living in Périgueux with her family (her father returned); obtaining false papers from a Jewish friend; hiding with her brother in Moissac, then Auvillar; separation from him when she was placed in a convent; moving to a castle; working for the Resistance; arrest in October 1943; beatings during interrogations; transfer to Toulouse, then Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in January 1944; slave labor in the Union Kommando; a doctor in the hospital assisting her; public executions of an escapee and women who assisted in the October uprising; a death march to a train to the Ravensbrück tent camp in January 1945; volunteering for transfer due to a dream about her mother; transfer to Malchow, then Taucha; a death march; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; and reunion with her family in Paris (they all survived). Ms. C. discusses her state of mind and inter-group relations in the camps; the importance of friends to her survival (she names several); continuing nightmares; recently visiting Auschwitz with her son; and hoping to visit with her other son.
- Author/Creator
- C., Simone, 1922-
- Published
- Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1995
- Interview Date
- January 23, 1995.
- Locale
- France
Germany
Magdeburg (Germany)
Paris (France)
Toulouse (France)
Périgueux (France)
Moissac (Tarn-et-Garonne, France)
Auvillar (France)
- Cite As
- Simone C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3210). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Ganem, Michèle, interviewer.
Wieviorka, Annette, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
Related material: Regine B. Holocaust testimony [friend](HVT-3206), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Related material: Ida G. Holocaust testimony [friend](HVT-2650), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
