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V., Octavie,
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Octavie V. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4251)
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[videorecording] /
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interviewed by Michel Rosenfeldt and Patrice van Laethem,
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April 11 and April 13, 2000.
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Brussels, Belgium :
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Fondation Auschwitz,
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2000.
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2 videorecordings (4 hr., 54 min.) :
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col.
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Videotape testimony of Octavie V., a Catholic, who was born in Antwerp in 1924, an only child. She recalls being a championship swimmer; German invasion; fleeing briefly with her family; observing discrimination against Jews, including wearing the star and disappearances; engagement to a swimmer; becoming a courier for the underground (her parents and relatives were involved); arrest on November 26, 1943 with her mother, fiancé, and his family; solitary confinement until her father's arrest, then sharing a cell with her mother; learning she was pregnant; being forbidden to marry due to their classification as political prisoners; transfer to St. Gilles; train transport to Cologne two days later with her mother, fiancé, his father and sister; placement in a women's prison with her mother and fiancé's sister; their transfer a week later to Gross Strehlitz; categorization as “Nacht und Nebel”; sharing a cell with her mother and fiance's sister; slave labor; Polish prisoners throwing her food; her son's birth; a physician repairing her injury from childbirth; solitary confinement with her son; sabotaging sewing she was assigned to do in her cell; the Polish prisoner cook giving her extra food; arrival of three French prisoners with their children; evacuation of the camp on January 19, 1945, including her mother; encountering two Belgian prisoners of war; joining a convoy of French and Belgian POWs on January 27 with the French women and children; a four-day walk to Częstochowa; two of the French children dying; transfer to a Russian village in late April, then to Odesa in early June; train transport to Berlin on July 15; transfer to United States authorities; assistance from the Red Cross; transport to Herentals; arrival in Antwerp on July 20; reunion with her mother and aunt; learning about concentration and killing camps and that her father and fiancé did not survive; and marriage in December to one of the POWs who liberated her in Gross Strehlitz. Ms. V. notes the importance of her mother, her son, and luck to her survival; continuing close relations with fellow prisoners; always discussing their experiences together; and anxieties and physical ailments resulting from her experiences.
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This testimony is in Dutch.
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Octavie V. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4251). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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2 copies:
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Betacam SP dub;
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and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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V., Octavie,
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1924-
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91029304
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Video tapes.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
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Women.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Personal narratives.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
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World War, 1939-1945
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Personal narratives, Belgian.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113917
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World War, 1939-1945
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Underground movements
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Belgium.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113865
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0
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World War, 1939-1945
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Prisoners and prisons, German.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474
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Mothers and daughters.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087538
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Women prisoners.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147690
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Childbirth.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023401
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Women political prisoners.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147685
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Sabotage.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116210
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Forced labor.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
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Mothers and sons.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087539
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Prisoners of war
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France.
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Prisoners of war
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Belgium.
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Prisoners of war
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Germany.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107235
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Belgium.
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126041
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Antwerp (Belgium)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018141
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Cologne (Germany)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80050882
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Oral histories (document genres)
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http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
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Częstochowa (Poland)
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Odesa (Ukraine)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79139057
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Berlin (Germany)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79034972
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Herentals (Belgium)
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85308315
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Mutual aid.
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Postwar experiences.
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Postwar effects.
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St. Gilles (Prison)
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Gross Strehlitz (Prison)
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Rosenfeldt, Michel,
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interviewer.
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Laethem, Patrice, van,
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interviewer.
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
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Yale University Library,
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Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
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Manuscripts and Archives
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LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only >> MS 1322|DELIM|6923040
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