Lucy L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Lucy L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, the second of three children. She recalls her family's leadership role in the Jewish community; their orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; participation in an Agudat Israel youth group; the Anschluss in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; preparations to emigrate; Nazis forcing her mother to scrub the street; confiscation of their apartment; witnessing their synagogue and its contents being burned on Kristallnacht; her parents arranging for her and her sister to join a children's transport organized by Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld; traveling to London via Rotterdam in December 1938; living in a B'nai B'rith children's home; attending school; correspondence with her parents; learning her brother had emigrated to Palestine and her parents to the United States; she and her sister joining them in May 1940; her father's death in 1943; marriage; and adopting two sons and the birth of a daughter. Ms. L. notes continuing fears due to her experiences. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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
- L., Lucy, -- 1923-
- Schonfeld, Solomon, -- 1912-
Corporate Bodies
- B'nai B'rith.
- Agudat Israel.
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Postwar effects.
- Postwar experiences.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Child survivors.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- Sisters.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Jewish refugees.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
Places
- London (England)
- Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
- Rotterdam (Netherlands)
- Austria.
- Vienna (Austria)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat