Emanuel A. and Lily A. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3007
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Emanuel A. and his wife Lily A. Mr. A. was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1916. He recounts studying medicine in Athens; membership in the Communist Party; joining the EAM resistance after German invasion; organizing the rescue of Jews with others, sending them to Greek islands, Turkey, and Palestine; assistance from Greeks and the Orthodox Church; joining partisans in the Parnethas Mountains in September 1943; treating the wounded; liberation in October 1944; returning to Athens in April 1945; learning his sister and parents survived by hiding in Macedonia; resuming medical studies; working with the Joint; and becoming active in the Jewish community.

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

  • A., Lily, -- 1929-
  • A., Emanuel, -- 1916-

Corporate Bodies

  • Ethnikon Apeleutherōtikon Metōpon (Greece)
  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

Subjects

  • Partisans.
  • Child survivors.
  • Sisters.
  • Fathers and daughters.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • False papers.
  • Hiding.
  • Aid by non-Jews.
  • Men.
  • Women.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Video tapes.
  • Jewish ghettos.
  • Jews -- Greece -- Thessalonikē.
  • Escapes.
  • Mothers and daughters.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Greece.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.

Places

  • Thessalonikē (Greece)
  • Greece.
  • Parnēthas Mountains.
  • Salonika ghetto.
  • Athens (Greece)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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