Marcel F. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Marcel F., who was born in Paris, France in 1936 to immigrant parents. He recounts living in a Jewish neighborhood; his father enlisting in the Foreign Legion in 1938 to obtain citizenship; German invasion; his father's escape to Bort-les-Orgues in the unoccupied zone; brief arrest with his mother in Dijon in 1940 on their way to join his father; release due to intervention from the mayor of Bort-les-Orgues; reunion with his father; leaving his parents to hide on a farm in Les Marjoris; a cousin joining him there (her parents did not survive); developing a loving relationship with the farm family; becoming Catholic; assuming a false name; visits from his parents once a month; attending school; his sorrow at leaving the farm after liberation; returning to Paris; and emigration to the United States. Mr. F. notes his admiration and love for the family who hid him and the mayor of Bort-les-Orgues who saved his family, and the deaths of about sixty family members during the war.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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
- F., Marcel, -- 1936-
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Postwar experiences.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Family.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Child survivors.
- Identification (Religion)
Places
- Les Marjoris (France)
- Paris (France)
- France.
- Bort-les-Orgues (France)
- Dijon (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat