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Juliette D. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4066) interviewed by Yannis Thanassekos and Maud Strosberg,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4066

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Juliette D., a Catholic, who was born in Sougné-Remouchamps, Belgium in 1917. She recalls attending school in Aywaille, then boarding school in Liège; attending nursing school; marriage in 1938; German invasion; enlisting with the Belgian Red Cross; caring for the wounded; passing letters among French and English soldiers; returning home; working with the resistance; escaping through France to Spain with her mother and sister; arrest by Spanish police; expulsion to Saint-Gaudens (they had false French papers); joining a resistance group; smuggling people to Montauban and Spain; arrest in Madrid; six weeks imprisonment; a chaplain smuggling her to Portugal; returning to Spain to continue resistance work; traveling to Brussels with the Red Cross after liberation; learning her husband had died in Buchenwald and her mother and brother had been in concentration camps because of their resistance work; working in France with UNRRA; and marriage to a Jew. Ms. D. notes not discussing war experiences within her family.
Author/Creator: D., Juliette, 1917-
Published: Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1996
Interview Date: October 30, 1996.
Locale: Belgium
France
Spain
Sougné-Remouchamps (Belgium)
Aywaille (Belgium)
Liège (Belgium)
Saint-Gaudens (France)
Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne, France)
Madrid (Spain)
Portugal
Cite As: Juliette D. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4066). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Thanassekos, Yannis, interviewer.
Strosberg, Maud, interviewer.
Notes: This testimony is in French.

Physical Details

Language: French
Copies: 2 copies: Betacam SP dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (3 hr., 12 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Postwar experiences.
False papers.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Belgian. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Spanish. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Spain. Interfaith marriage. Belgium. Sougné-Remouchamps (Belgium) Aywaille (Belgium) Liège (Belgium) Spain. Saint-Gaudens (France) Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne, France) Madrid (Spain) Portugal. Oral histories (document genres) D., Juliette,--1917- Croix-Rouge de Belgique. International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4676899
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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