Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Alegre T., who was born in Drama, Greece in 1922, one of seven children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-2414), she recounts a happy childhood; attending Jewish school; working at her sister's beauty salon; Bulgarian occupation; slave labor in the Auschwitz shoe kommando; fasting during Yom Kippur; a public execution; Allied bombings; a death march and train transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; liberation by British troops; contacting her cousin via the Red Cross; and traveling with her sister to Brussels, Athens, then Thessalonikē. Ms. T. discusses nightmares resulting from her experiences; sharing her story with her children; and visiting Greece with her daughters in 1972.
- Published
- Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1992
- Interview Date
- January 30, 1992.
- Locale
- Greece
Thessalonikē
Drama (Greece)
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Brussels (Belgium)
Athens (Greece) - Cite As
- Alegre T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2396). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Related material: Alegre T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2414), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. submaster; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 51 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Bulgarian occupation.
False papers.
Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Greece--Thessalonikē. Forced labor. Sisters. Brothers and sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Death marches. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Nightmares. Greece. Drama (Greece) Thessalonikē (Greece) Brussels (Belgium) Athens (Greece) Oral histories (document genres) T., Alegre,--1922- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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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/4296805
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4296805
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