- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Elisabeth F., a Catholic, who was born in Dorinne, Belgium in 1915. She recounts few memories of World War I; attending school in Natoye, Namur, and Brussels; marriage in 1936; her son's birth in 1937; her husband's military draft in 1939; fleeing with her parents and son to Murviel-lès-Béziers after German invasion; her husband's combat death; never attending mass again; living with her sister in Spontin; working for the Resistance through a former teacher; hiding and moving downed Allied pilots; imprisonment in St. Gilles for three weeks in November 1940; arrest with her former teacher in February 1943; incarceration in St. Gilles; never admitting to anything; her death sentence on May 5th; transfer to Aachen; celebrating Christmas; transfer to several places ending at Waldheim; sabotaging the forced factory labor; learning of the gassing and shooting of Jews; helping a Jewish woman; transfer to Cottbus, then Ravensbrück; loading bodies for the crematorium; talking and thinking about food all the time; transfer to Mauthausen, then Amstettin; liberation by the Red Cross in April; recovering in St. Gall; return to Belgium; reunion with her family; her son's difficulties; living in India; and speaking of her experiences with her camp friends.
- Author/Creator
- F., Elisabeth, 1915-
- Published
- Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1995
- Interview Date
- May 15, 1995.
- Locale
- Belgium
Dorinne (Belgium)
Natoye (Belgium)
Namur (Belgium)
Brussels (Belgium)
Murviel-lès-Béziers (France)
Spontin (Belgium)
Aachen (Germany)
Saint Gall (Switzerland)
- Cite As
- Elisabeth F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4019). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Daalder, Hessel, interviewer.
Rosenfeldt, Michel, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in French.
