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Luci P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2207) interviewed by Jaša Almuli,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2207

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Luci P., who was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1925. She recounts German occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish legislation; assistance from Serbian friends; her sister's compulsory forced labor; an uncle fleeing to Priština; acquiring false papers; joining him with her family in November via Skopje; being placed on the train back to Yugoslavia; escaping with assistance from a stranger; hiding in a village with a poor, Jewish family; joining her uncle in Prizren; continuing assistance from local Serbs; arrest in 1942; an Italian officer protecting them; transfer to Kavajë; an Albanian partisan providing them with food and false papers; Italian soldiers protecting them after German invasion in 1943; hiding in an Albanian village, then in Tirana; liberation in November 1944; returning to Belgrade; and finding their home intact.
Author/Creator: P., Luci, 1925-
Published: Belgrade, Serbia : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1992
Interview Date: January 4, 1992.
Locale: Albania
Yugoslavia
Belgrade (Serbia)
Skopje (Macedonia)
Pristina (Kosovo)
Prizren (Kosovo)
Kavajë (Albania : Rrethi)
Tirana (Albania)
Cite As: Luci P. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2207). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
Notes: 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., 26 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Italian occupation.
False papers.
Aid by non-Jews.
Partisans.
Hiding.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Escapes. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Italian. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Albania. Mothers and daughters. Families. Yugoslavia. Belgrade (Serbia) Skopje (Macedonia) Pristina (Kosovo) Prizren (Kosovo) Kavajë (Albania : Rrethi) Tirana (Albania) Oral histories (document genres) P., Luci,--1925-

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/4296620
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:28:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4296620

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