Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lea S., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. She recalls her large extended family; German invasion; anti-Jewish legislation; forced factory labor; hiding during a deportation; a guard letting her escape; briefly staying with a Jewish friend; meeting a non-Jew involved with the partisans who hid her, then arranged her transfer and provided false papers; traveling to Italian-occupied Mostar; assistance from the Jewish community; transfer to Hvar Island; benign conditions; transfer to Rab in May 1943; concentration camp conditions; organizing education for the children; forming a resistance group; abandonment by the Italian guards; joining a partisan unit; her assignment to a communications unit; becoming a code expert and officer; learning in 1946 that her family had all been killed; recuperating in Bled; and reunion with her fiancé.
- Published
- Belgrade, Serbia : Jewish Community in Belgrade, 1991
- Interview Date
- April 11, 1991.
- Locale
- Yugoslavia
Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Hvar Island (Croatia)
Bled (Slovenia) - Cite As
- Lea S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2202). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Serbian.
Physical Details
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 1 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Concentration camps Underground movements.
False papers.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Partisans.
Postwar experiences.
Italian occupation. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Yugoslavia. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Yugoslavia. Forced labor. Escapes. Concentration camps--Sociological aspects. Oral histories (document genres) Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Hvar Island (Croatia) Bled (Slovenia) Yugoslavia. S., Lea.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296610
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:32:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4296610
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