Nicholas A. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Nicholas A., who was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1935. He recalls the tightly-knit Jewish community; fleeing with his mother to Italian-occupied Split; arrival of two uncles and his father; an Italian arranging their passage to Trieste on a troop ship; hiding in various places in the Macerata region from 1941 to 1944, including Sarnona, Loro Piceno, Ascoli Piceno, and Porto San Giorgio; his Catholic baptism; receiving false identity papers; police warnings of round-ups; his sister's birth in 1944; liberation; living in Milan and Rome; emigration to the United States in 1950; and adjustment difficulties. Mr. A. discusses the fates of other family members; a recent reunion in Italy with some of his family's rescuers; his rejection of Judaism until his mother's death in 1974; the importance of his attending a child survivors group; and the great risks ordinary Italians took to save Jews, many of whom were complete strangers. He shows photographs and documents.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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Process Info
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People
- A., Nicholas, -- 1935-
Subjects
- Postwar effects.
- Italian occupation.
- Postwar experiences.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Child survivors.
- False papers.
- Hiding.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Identification (Religion)
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Family.
- Christian converts from Judaism.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
Places
- Porto San Giorgio (Italy)
- Ascoli Piceno (Italy)
- Loro Piceno (Italy)
- Sarnano (Italy)
- Macerata (Italy : Province)
- Rome (Italy)
- Milan (Italy)
- Zagreb (Croatia)
- Yugoslavia.
- Trieste (Italy)
- Split (Croatia)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat