Edith T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Edith T., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1928. She recalls the death of her sister during an epidemic; German invasion; escaping to France; moving many places including Be?ziers, Montpellier, and Puisserguier; her father's brief stay in a labor camp; going into hiding with help from OSE; staying with other Jewish children at a convent in Villefranche-de-Rouergue; observing Jewish holidays; singing in the convent choir; liberation; reunion with her parents who had also been in hiding; returning to Antwerp; and emigrating to the United States in 1948. Mrs. T. discusses her parents' difficulties adjusting to life in the United States; marriage to a survivor; the pleasure her children and grandchildren brought to her parents; and her continuing gratitude to the nuns who saved her. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- T., Edith, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- World Union OSE.
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Postwar experiences.
- Child survivors.
- Hiding.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Convents.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Puisserguier (France)
- Montpellier (France)
- Villefranche-de-Rouergue (France)
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- BeĚziers (France)
- Belgium.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat