Lori S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Lori S., who was born in Linnich, Germany, in 1922. Mrs. S. speaks of her family's longstanding local prominence; the Nazi boycott of her father's department store; the family's move to Sittard, Holland, in 1934; German invasion in 1940; anti-Semitic measures; ignoring friends' advice to hide; and her family's internment in Westerbork in November 1942. She details camp regimen; her father's anguish at working for the camp Jewish police; naivete? about the destination of departing transports; transfer to Terezi?n in September 1944; separation from her parents and brother; learning of her father and brother's deportation to Auschwitz; forced labor; and close bonds among her group of female prisoners. She recounts refusing inclusion in a prisoner exchange (her father had advised her not to volunteer for anything); elaborate German ruses during a Red Cross visit; depression on learning of Roosevelt's death; liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her brother; returning to Holland with her mother; and emigration to the United States in 1947.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
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
People
- S., Lori, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Westerbork (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Family.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Mutual aid.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
Places
- Germany.
- Linnich (Germany)
- Sittard (Netherlands)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat