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Alegre T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2396) interviewed by Diane M. Plotkin and Mark Jacobs,

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2396

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.

Author/Creator: T., Alegre, 1922-
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)
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.
Cite As: Alegre T. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2396). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 51 min.) : col
Other Authors/Editors: Plotkin, Diane M., interviewer.
Notes: Related material: Alegre T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2414), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
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.
Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
: View in Yale University Library Catalog: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4296805
Record last modified: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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