Hassid, Mazaltov

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Mazaltov Hassid was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1921, the oldest of three children. She recounts attending a French school; her family's emigration to Brussels in 1930; marriage to a man from Thessalonikē in 1939; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Toulouse; her brother's escape to Spain, then Palestine; returning to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining false papers; going into hiding with her family in 1942; arrest in July 1944; deportation to Malines, then to Auschwitz three weeks later; a Greek prisoner advising them in Ladino of survival strategies; separation from her husband and father; her sister frequently fainting due to her fear of the omnipresent rats; obtaining extra food from a Greek friend who was in the Canada Kommando; her sister's hospitalization; exchanging food for warmer clothing for her sister; pointless slave labor; transfer with her mother and sister to Wilischtal; slave labor in a munitions factory; a German providing medicine for her sister; train transfer to Theresienstadt; receiving Red Cross packages; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home via Liège; and reunion with her husband, father, and grandparents. Ms. H. discusses her persistent fear of death in the camps; her disadvantage because she did not speak Yiddish or German; visiting Thessalonikē in 1960; her continuing dislike of hearing German spoken; and a two-year depression when she was forty-one.

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

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Fiche interview

Code interview : YA/FA/134
Date interview : 09/06/1997
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 4h06
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Yannis Thanassekos et Michel Rosenfeldt
Cameraman : Adrien Antoniol
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : non
Séquençage interview : non

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Auschwitz / Birkenau | Dossin / Malines/Mechelen | Juif / Juive | Theresienstadt / Terezin | Wilischtal / Flossenburg