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Jelena H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2209) interviewed by Jaša Almuli,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2209

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Jelena H., who was born in Padina, Yugoslavia. She recounts graduating as a physician from university in Belgrade; German invasion; briefly returning home; returning to Belgrade in June; working in a hospital; returning home; deportation of all Jews to Belgrade in August; a round-up in November, including her father (she never saw him again); incarceration in Zemun in December; working in a hospital; efforts to save children; Serbs bringing them food; her husband (a Bulgarian) arranging for her and her mother to join him in Bitola in March 1942; deportation in March 1943 to Skopje; incarceration in a tobacco factory; working in a sanatorium; deportations; mobilization as a doctor (her husband, mother, and mother-in-law remained with her); assignment to a village, then to Titov Veles; her husband's execution by Germans in June 1944; serving as a partisan doctor; living in Bitola after liberation; and moving to Belgrade.
Author/Creator: H., Jelena.
Published: Belgrade, Serbia : Jewish Community in Belgrade, 1991
Interview Date: May 13, 1991.
Locale: Yugoslavia
Belgrade (Serbia)
Padina (Serbia)
Bitola (Macedonia)
Skopje (Macedonia)
Titov Veles (Macedonia)
Cite As: Jelena H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2209). 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 (43 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Partisans.
Aid by non-Jews.
Mutual aid.
Husband Death.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Mothers and daughters. Husband and wife. Families. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia. Belgrade (Serbia) Padina (Serbia) Bitola (Macedonia) Skopje (Macedonia) Titov Veles (Macedonia) Oral histories (document genres) H., Jelena. Zemun (Concentration camp)

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/4296624
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:33:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4296624

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