Lily Zelenka biography "Little Lily"
Extent and Medium
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2
Creator(s)
- Claire Ramsay
- Lily Zelenka
Biographical History
A Quaker organization helped Lily Zelenka and her husband Carlo safeguard their sons Martin and Charles from the Holocaust via a Kindertransport to England. Lily and Carlo survived Theresienstadt and deportation to Auschwitz where Carlo perished. Lily was then transferred for forced labor in Hamburg and Neuengraben before being liberated at Bergen Belsen.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Claire Ramsay donated the Little Lily: Lily Zelenka biography to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991. Ramsay was a friend of Zelenka.
Scope and Content
Contains the remembrances of Lily Zelenka in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, as a victim of deportation, prisoner in several concentration camps, and survivor of the Holocaust. "Little Lily" covers a general span of time from 1900 through the 1950s. "Little Lily" was written by Claire Ramsay as told to her by Lily Zelenka in 1981.
System of Arrangement
Little Lily: Lily Zelenka biography is arranged as a single file.
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Great Britain. Army
Subjects
- Harburg-Wilhelmsburg (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Quakers.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jews--Austria.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Vienna (Austria)
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Prague (Czech Republic)
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.