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• Author/Creator:F., Julie, 1908-
  
• Title:Julie F. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3456) [videorecording] / interviewed by Hessel Daalder and Elisabeth Inchusta, January 30, 1995.
  
• Published/Created:Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1995.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (5 hr., 14 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3456)
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• Notes:This testimony is in French.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Julie F., a non-Jew, who was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium in 1908. She recalls her family's affluence and Catholicism; memories of World War I; living in Louvain; her father's accidental death when she was thirteen; briefly living in Düsseldorf with family friends; returning to Brussels; marriage in 1925; her son's birth in 1928; separation from her husband in 1939; living with her mother; opening a fashion shop; German invasion; closing her shop; a friend hiding Jews; working as a Resistance courier; arrest in April 1941; incarceration in St. Gilles; friendship with cellmates; transfer to Amberg in September, then to Charlottenburg in May 1943; trial and conviction; return to Amberg, then to Lübeck, back to Amberg, then Rostock; deportation to Ravensbrück; separation with others designated as "Nacht und Nebel" for some time; slave labor sorting possessions of murdered prisoners; stealing clothes for herself and others; becoming indifferent to corpses everywhere; hospitalization for ten days; two prisoners giving birth; transfer to Mauthausen in open rail cars; assistance from Spanish prisoners; liberation by the Red Cross; transport to Switzerland, Hotel Lutetia in Paris, then Brussels; reunion with her mother and son; difficulties adjusting to normal life; and marriage. Ms. F. discusses relations between prisoners; the importance of helping each other; testifying against the man who arrested her; nightmares; reluctance to share her experiences with her son and grandsons; and visits to Ravensbrück and Mauthausen.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Julie F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3456). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:F., Julie, 1908-
  Zuchthaus Amberg.
  Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
  Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
  International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  Hotel Lutetia (Paris, France)
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Belgian.
  Concentration camp inmates.
  World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Belgium.
  World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
  Forced labor.
  Concentration camps--Sociological aspects.
  Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
  Nightmares.
  War crime trials.
  Belgium.
  Schaerbeek (Belgium)
  Louvain (Belgium)
  Düsseldorf (Germany)
  Brussels (Belgium)
  Switzerland.
  Paris (France)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Resistance.
  Mutual aid.
  Hospitals in concentration camps.
  Childbirth in concentration camps.
  Postwar effects.
  Postwar experiences.
  Survivor-child relations.
  St. Gilles (Prison)
  Charlottenburg (Prison)
  a Lübeck (Prison)
  a Rostock (Prison)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Inchusta, Elisabeth, interviewer.
  Daalder, Hessel, interviewer.