Razon S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3567)

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.