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• Author/Creator:H., Odette, 1927-
  
• Title:Odette H. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4069) [videorecording] / interviewed by Michel Rosenfeldt, June 16, 1997.
  
• Published/Created:Brussels, Belgium : Fondation Auschwitz, 1997.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (3 hr., 54 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.4069)
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• Notes:Related material: Mazaltov H. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-4070), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  This testimony is in French.
  2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Odette H., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1927, one of three children. She recounts her family's emigration to Brussels in 1930; attending school; German invasion; fleeing to Paris, then Toulouse; attending school; her brother fleeing to Spain, and ultimately to Israel; returning to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; going into hiding with her family in November 1942; obtaining false papers; arrest in 1944; incarceration in Avenue Louise; transfer to Malines; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with her mother and sister; hospitalization; avoiding selection with assistance from her mother and sister; working as a translator; their transfer to Wilischtal; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Theresienstadt; receiving Red Cross packages; liberation by Soviet troops; United States troops moving them to Sokolov, then the Bamberg displaced persons camp; satisfaction upon denouncing SS soldiers to the authorities; traveling to Liège; returning home; reunion with her brother-in-law, father, and grandparents; and marriage. Ms. H. discusses her terror caused by the rats in Auschwitz; her stronger faith in God due to her experiences; a 1950 visit to Israel; not sharing her experiences; and disliking films about the Holocaust since they cannot convey the true horror.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Odette H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4069). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:H., Odette, 1927-
  Malines (Concentration camp)
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
  International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
  Jewish children in the Holocaust.
  Forced labor.
  Mothers and daughters.
  Sisters.
  Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships.
  Greece.
  Thessalonikē (Greece)
  Brussels (Belgium)
  Paris (France)
  Toulouse (France)
  Sokolov (Slovakia)
  Liège (Belgium)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Hiding.
  False papers.
  Hospitals in concentration camps.
  Mutual aid.
  Postwar experiences.
  Survivor-child relations.
  Wilischtal (Germany : Concentration camp)
  Bamberg (Germany : Refugee camp)
  Avenue Louise (Prison)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Rosenfeldt, Michel, interviewer.