- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Henry A., who was born in Salonika, Greece in 1910. He describes his education; working in his father's coffee house; the absence of antisemitism in Salonika; importing auto parts and radios in the 1930s; his arranged marriage; the birth of his son in 1939; and the outbreak of war with Italy in 1940. He recalls military training at Nauplion in 1941; returning to Salonika after the German occupation; refusing to divulge names of customers who bought radios; becoming a textile merchant; being fined for "overcharging" German customers; paying a doctor to certify him an invalid to avoid forced labor; and ghettoization of Salonika in February 1943. Mr. A. relates going into hiding with his wife and son in March; numerous Greek Orthodox and Muslim people who hid them; deportation of his in-laws; entry of communist partisans into Salonika in October 1944 after the Germans had left; translation work for British Military Liaison/Greece; a visit to the United States in 1946; and founding an export business in New York. Mr. A. discusses a memoir he is writing for his children and his gratitude to the many friends and officials who aided him during the war.
- Author/Creator
- A., Henry, 1910-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1987
- Interview Date
- October 9, 1987.
- Locale
- Greece
Thessalonikē
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Nauplion (Greece)
- Cite As
- Henry A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-940). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holcaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Allegra and Henry A. Holocaust testimony [with wife] (HVT-941), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
