- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Marcelle B., who was born in Paris, France, in 1931. Mrs. B. recalls her close, extended family's Polish roots; long illnesses that separated her from her twin sisters; staying at a sanatorium in Hendaye after corrective surgery in summer 1939; returning with her father to Paris; German occupation; imposition of anti-Semitic measures; deportations; riding the Paris Metro in defiance of regulations; and her father's decision to go into hiding before a July 1942 round-up. She tells of being taken with her mother to the Vélodrome d'Hiver; appalling conditions; separation from her mother and sisters (whom she never saw again); transfer to a hospital when a nurse from Hendaye interceded; reunion with her father after other patients were taken away; hiding with a family in Bondy; pressure from her hosts to become Catholic; visiting her father in Paris; an emergency appendectomy in 1943; returning to Bondy; and discovering in June 1944 that her father had been deported. She describes despair; living with an aunt in Paris; emigrating in 1946, against her will, to the United States; adjustment difficulties; marriage; repeated emotional breakdowns; and learning the details of her father's betrayal and fate.
- Author/Creator
- B., Marcelle, 1931-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1990
- Interview Date
- March 22, 1990.
- Locale
- France
Paris (France)
Bondy (France)
Hendaye (France)
- Cite As
- Marcelle B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1308). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Herz, Sara Moss, interviewer.
Cohen, Frances Proctor, interviewer.
