Irene K., Holocaust testimony (HVT-1938) [videorecording] / interviewed by Susan Lang and Elaine Tannenbaum, October 29, 1992.

Ventnor, N.J. : Federation of Jewish Agencies of Atlantic County/Stockton State College, Holocaust Oral History Project, 1992.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 13 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Rabbi David K. Holocaust testimony [husband] (HVT-1902), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Videotape testimony of Irene K., who was born in Strasbourg, France in 1920. She describes her family's restaurant; good relations with non-Jews; attending lycee for nurses' training; evacuation to Limoges in September 1939; her brother's escape to join the Free French in North Africa; marriage in 1941; working for OSE to hide and assist Jewish children; her husband's work with the underground; her daughter's birth in 1942; arrest and escape when the train station was bombed; and hiding with her husband, child and mother-in-law for a year with friends in the underground. Mrs. K. recounts working with the Red Cross after the massacre in Oradour-sur-Glane in June 1944 and secretly taking photographs which she shows. Mrs. K. dedicates her testimony to those who hid her family.

June 01, 2002

Irene K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1938). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Irene K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1938). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)

Nurses.