Lilly G. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lilly G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925, an only child. She recounts a close relationship with her Hasidic grandparents; German occupation; attending a Jewish school; Kristallnacht; expropriation of her mother's business; her parents obtaining false papers; their emigration to Brussels in spring 1939; living in Antwerp; obtaining visas for the United States; German invasion in May 1940; her father's arrest as an "enemy alien"; his deportation to camps in France; arranging to be smuggled to Paris, then Nice; living in Marseille; visiting her father in the camp; acquiring visas for Cuba; her father's release; their trip to Cuba via Casablanca in January 1942; marriage to a survivor in 1955; and emigration to the United States in 1961. Ms. G. notes learning all of her father's relatives were killed during the Holocaust; visits to Vienna in 1966 and 1987; recently attending a school reunion; and she and her husband sharing their experiences with their children.

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