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Gattegno, Léa

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Gancarska, Hélène (Chaja)
Genard, Mariette
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Description de l'interview extraite du site US Fortunoff / Biographie à venir

 

Lea was born in Rome, Italy in 1925, one of four children. She recounts her family moving to Anzio in approximately 1927; her parents' positions as school teachers; moving to Rhodes in 1936; her father serving as director of the Jewish school; his death; her mother taking his position; she and her older sister teaching there; her brother having to work at age thirteen; food shortages; German occupation; round-up of all Jews; deportation with her family by ship to Piraeus, then by train to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation of men and women; separation with her sister from their mother, grandmother, and baby brother (they never saw them again); initially not believing what they were told about the crematoria; slave labor weaving plastic and carrying bricks; speaking with her brother a few times through the barbed wire; several hospitalizations; strained relations between Polish and Italian prisoners; losing her belief in God; abandonment by the Germans in January 1945; liberation days later by Soviet troops; placement in a sanatorium with her sister and two other women from Rhodes; repatriation to Rome in August; learning her brother had been killed; staying with their aunt; working in a Jewish orphanage; and marriage to a survivor from Rhodes. Ms. F. discusses nightmares resulting from her experiences and not sharing her stories with her children.

(Copyright : Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies – Yale)

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Code interview : YA/FA/102
Date interview : 13/03/1996
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 3h47
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Michel Rosenfeldt et Pascal Majerus
Cameraman : Vincent Bloden
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : Oui
Séquençage interview : non

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Auschwitz / Birkenau | Chaïdari / Athina/Athènes (camp) | Juif / Juive | Rhodes

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