Dina L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-352) [videorecording] / interviewed by Carol Tobin, August 8, 1984.

Cleveland, Ohio : National Council of Jewish Women, Holocaust Archive Project, 1984.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 33 min.) : col.

English

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Videotape testimony of Dina L., who was born in Paris in approximately 1927 to Polish immigrants. She recounts her family's poverty; antisemitic harassment by children; participating in a program that sent poor children to country farms during the summer; her father's enlistment in the French military; German occupation in June 1940; her father's brief return, then departure to work in Belgium; anti-Jewish restrictions, including the yellow star; a teacher and bystanders convincing a German soldier not to arrest her for not having her papers; joining her brother, who was living with farmers in the country; her mother obtaining false papers and joining them; the entire village protecting them; returning to Paris in October 1944; returning to school; and emigrating to the United States in 1947. Ms. L. discusses visiting Malines, from where her father was deported, and finding his name on a monument in Brussels.

June 01, 2002

Dina L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-352). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Dina L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-352). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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