Lucie J. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1252
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Lucie J., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, an only child. She recounts antisemitic harassment; membership in a Jewish sports club; attending a swim meet in Breslau; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's arrest and deportation to Dachau in May 1938; eviction from their home; living with an aunt; participating in a Zionist youth group; a non-Jew warning them to leave their Jewish neighborhood prior to Kristallnacht; staying with friends in another area; her mother sending her to London in January 1939 on a Kindertransport organized by Hakoah; learning of her father's release and her parents' emigration to Palestine; moving to a Jewish children's home in Newcastle; preparing to emigrate to Palestine at a Zionist agricultural camp; emigration and reunion with her parents in Palestine; living in a Youth Aliyah village; returning to England to marry a Jewish soldier after the war; her daughter's birth; her husband's death sixteen years later; emigration to join her parents in the United States; remarriage; and her son's birth.

Extent and Medium

1 videocassette

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony is open with permission.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

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