Feraille, Elisabeth

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Elisabeth Feraille was born in Dorinne, Belgium in 1915. She recounts few memories of World War I; attending school in Natoye, Namur, and Brussels; marriage in 1936; her son's birth in 1937; her husband's military draft in 1939; fleeing with her parents and son to Murviel-lès-Béziers after German invasion; her husband's combat death; never attending mass again; living with her sister in Spontin; working for the Resistance through a former teacher; hiding and moving downed Allied pilots; imprisonment in St. Gilles for three weeks in November 1940; arrest with her former teacher in February 1943; incarceration in St. Gilles; never admitting to anything; her death sentence on May 5th; transfer to Aachen; celebrating Christmas; transfer to several places ending at Waldheim; sabotaging the forced factory labor; learning of the gassing and shooting of Jews; helping a Jewish woman; transfer to Cottbus, then Ravensbrück; loading bodies for the crematorium; talking and thinking about food all the time; transfer to Mauthausen, then Amstettin; liberation by the Red Cross in April; recovering in St. Gall; return to Belgium; reunion with her family; her son's difficulties; living in India; and speaking of her experiences with her camp friends.

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

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Code interview : YA/FA/073
Date interview : 15/05/1995
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 3h21
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Hessel Daalder et Michel Rosenfeldt
Cameraman : Adrien Antoniol
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : non
Séquençage interview : Oui