Title
Alegre T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2396) [videorecording] / interviewed by Diane M. Plotkin and Mark Jacobs, January 30, 1992.
Notes
Related material: Alegre T. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2414), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Associated material: Tevet, Alegre. Interview 26838. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
Summary
Videotape testimony of Alegre T., who was born in Drama, Greece in 1922, one of seven children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-2414), she recounts a happy childhood; attending Jewish school; working at her sister's beauty salon; Bulgarian occupation; slave labor in the Auschwitz shoe kommando; fasting during Yom Kippur; a public execution; Allied bombings; a death march and train transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; liberation by British troops; contacting her cousin via the Red Cross; and traveling with her sister to Brussels, Athens, then Thessalonikē. Ms. T. discusses nightmares resulting from her experiences; sharing her story with her children; and visiting Greece with her daughters in 1972.