Lea S. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2202
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Lea S., who was born in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. She recalls her large extended family; German invasion; anti-Jewish legislation; forced factory labor; hiding during a deportation; a guard letting her escape; briefly staying with a Jewish friend; meeting a non-Jew involved with the partisans who hid her, then arranged her transfer and provided false papers; traveling to Italian-occupied Mostar; assistance from the Jewish community; transfer to Hvar Island; benign conditions; transfer to Rab in May 1943; concentration camp conditions; organizing education for the children; forming a resistance group; abandonment by the Italian guards; joining a partisan unit; her assignment to a communications unit; becoming a code expert and officer; learning in 1946 that her family had all been killed; recuperating in Bled; and reunion with her fiance?.

Extent and Medium

3 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

  • S., Lea.

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.
  • Women.
  • Forced labor.
  • Escapes.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Yugoslavia.
  • Partisans.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Italian occupation.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • Concentration camps -- Underground movements.
  • Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
  • Hiding.
  • False papers.

Places

  • Yugoslavia.
  • Bled (Slovenia)
  • Rab Island (Croatia : Concentration camp)
  • Sarajevo (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
  • Hvar Island (Croatia)
  • Mostar (Bosnia and Hercegovina)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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