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Oral history interview with Ester Dante

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.231 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0231

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    Oral history interview with Ester Dante

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Ester Dante (née Amar), born in Zakinthos, Greece on January 10, 1935, discusses living with her father in Litakia while her mother and sister lived in the ghetto; the Jewish community; bombardments by the Italians and life under Italian fascists; men being taken to work camps; life under German occupation; escaping the village with her brothers; contact with the partisans who warned her not to assemble for fear of deportation; hiding out and being saved by a Greek neighbor; being taken to Athens, Greece to prepare to go to Israel; internment on the island of Cyprus; and adjustment to life in Israel.
    Interviewee
    Ester Dante
    Date
    interview:  1995 April 23
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    3 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Dante, Ester, 1935-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Ester Dante in Israel on April 23, 1995. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 1996, as an accretion to the original collection of Israel Documentation Project interviews received by transfer in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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