- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Rachel E., who was born in 1932, and raised in Compiègne, France. She recounts antisemitic harassment; German invasion; bombing of their house; moving to Paris; her father's military enlistment; his return; returning to Compiègne; anti-Jewish measures; her parents' arrest in July 1942 (she never saw them again); their Catholic neighbors volunteering to care for her and her younger brother; being treated better than their own children; wishing she was not Jewish; attending school; teachers and students colluding to hide their identity; their foster parents fleeing with them to escape a round-up in which her four year-old cousin was caught; liberation by United States troops; she and her brother refusing to leave their foster parents to live with an aunt and uncle; a court decision compelling them to join their relatives; the painful separation from her brother when she emigrated to the United States to live with her mother's sister; her brother's return to their foster family; marriage; and reuniting with her brother in France thirteen years later. She discusses continuing affectionate relations with her foster parents, and initiating their recognition by Yad Vashem. She shows photographs.
- Author/Creator
- E., Rachel, 1932-
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- April 22, 1991.
- Locale
- Compiègne (France)
Paris (France)
- Cite As
- Rachel E. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1767). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Schiff, Gabriele, interviewer.
