Dora C. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3188) [videorecording] / interviewed by Sarah Hirschfield and Raymond Kaplan, October 6, 1995.

Mahwah, N.J. : Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1995.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 23 min.) : col.

English

Associated material: Cohen, Dora. Interview 3594. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.

Videotape testimony of Dora C., who was born in Iōannina, Greece in 1921, one of three children. She recounts her pleasant childhood; cordial relations with non-Jews; the benign Italian occupation; German invasion; one brother joining the underground; round-up and transfer to Larisa; assistance from the Red Cross; deportation to Birkenau; separation from her mother and younger brother (they were killed); severe swelling in her feet; constantly crying, but maintaining her faith in God; hospitalization; another patient giving her food; returning to her barrack; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Bergen-Belsen, then another camp; assignment to the kitchen; sharing potatoes she took with others; a serious eye problem; liberation; hospitalization; returning home; obtaining family belongings from a neighbor; moving to Athens; living in a girls' home for two years; a cousin in the United States showing her photograph to her future husband, who proposed and sponsored her emigration to the United States; living with relatives prior to her marriage; and the births of three children. Ms. C. discusses continuing health problems and nightmares resulting from the camps. She shows photographs and a memorial plaque for her family.

June 01, 2002

Dora C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3188). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Dora C. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3188). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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