Lucy L. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 2642
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

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

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