- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Louis G., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1925. He recounts his uncle's murder by Brownshirts; moving to Paris with his parents and brother in 1933; attending school; German invasion; fleeing to Lugagnac in June 1940; moving to Cahors; their internment in Agde; their release; living in Montpellier; their futile attempt to enter Switzerland in November 1942; returning to live with a Jew in hiding in Montpellier (his brother and parents went to Saint-Martin-Vésubie); obtaining real identity papers in Limoges; arrest in Nice; having to report to the police weekly; joining his family in Saint-Martin-Vésubie in September 1943; walking over the Alps to Valdieri after Italian capitulation; living in the countryside through October; traveling to Florence; Rabbi Nathan Casuto arranging to hide them; Father Casini hiding his mother in a convent; being placed with others in a theater; a German raid; escaping with his brother to a convent (they never saw their father again); Father Casini hiding them in an orphanage; liberation in August 1944; emigration to Israel; and his brother's death in the 1948 war. He discusses his dismay at French collaboration; Yad Vashem honoring their rescuers; and his father's death in Auschwitz.
- Author/Creator
- G., Louis, 1925-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- April 14, 1991.
- Locale
- Italy
Germany
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Paris (France)
Lugagnac (France)
Cahors (France)
Montpellier (France)
Limoges (France)
Nice (France)
Saint-Martin-Vésubie (France)
Valdieri (Italy)
Florence (Italy)
Israel
- Cite As
- Louis G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1798). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Dwork, Bonnie, interviewer.
Adleman, A., interviewer.
