Lilly Goldstein D. P. index card and vaccination form
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Lilly Goldstein
Biographical History
Lilly Goldstein (b. Laya Kaufman) was born on August 9, 1924 in Slatinske Doly, Czechoslovakia (Solotvina, Ukraine) and is a survivor of Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps, and a survivor of forced labor in a textile factory in Sudetenland. After her liberation by the Russians on May 7, 1945, she reunited with her sister, and traveled in Hungary and Austria before entering a displaced persons camp in Klagenfurt, Austria, in the British Zone of occupation. In 1947, she and her sister immigrated to the United States where they joined their father in Erie, Pennsylvania. Goldstein married her husband, Harold Goldstein (d. 1983), in 1950.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Lilly Goldstein donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998.
Scope and Content
Contains a displaced person index card (A 10193) issued to Lily Kaufman (Lilly Goldstein) by the Allied Expeditionary Force in 1945 and a vaccination form for Lili Kaufman issued a displaced persons camp in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 1945.
People
- Goldstein, Lilly, 1924-
- Goldstein, Harold, -1983.
Corporate Bodies
- Allied Forces
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Refugees--Austria--Klagenfurt.
- Refugee camps--Austria--Klagenfurt.
- Vaccination--Austria--Klagenfurt.
- Jews--Ukraine--Solotvina.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany.
Genre
- Document