Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Razon S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1919, one of five children. He recounts attending a Jewish school; working in agriculture; one brother's emigration to Palestine; military draft in 1939; battles against Italian forces; military collapse; returning home; learning his mother had died; working as a shoe maker; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing to the countryside; working in villages; joining the partisans in 1942; participating in raids; escaped Allied POWs joining them; visiting his father, two brothers, and sister in the ghetto; a futile attempt to convince them to join him; being injured by a cannon; recuperating with a family in a small town (he had false papers); liberation; returning home; working in a kitchen for returning survivors; vainly seeking his family on lists of survivors; moving to Athens; emigration to Israel; marriage to a Greek camp survivor in 1948; and a warm reception when they visited the village where he had recovered from his wound during the war.
- Published
- Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- July 25, 1993.
- Locale
- Greece
Thessalonikē
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Athens (Greece) - Cite As
- Razon S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3567). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (4 hr.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Partisans.
Hiding.
False papers.
Aid by non-Jews. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Greek. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Greece. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Greece--Thessalonikē. Prisoners of war--Greece. Greece. Thessalonikē (Greece) Athens (Greece) Oral histories (document genres) S., Razon,--1919-
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/4298288
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4298288
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