Lola L. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 1027
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Lola L., who was born in approximately 1927. She recounts attending a Jewish public school in ?o?dz?; German invasion; her older brother's one-day seizure for forced labor; his escape to the Soviet zone (they never saw him again); ghettoization in 1940; forced factory labor; her father and mother dying of starvation; a round-up of children, including her four-year-old nephew; deportation with her sisters to Birkenau; selection with them for transfer to a slave labor camp; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; having to carry one sister to appell because she was so ill; escaping with her from a selection to an empty barrack; liberation by British troops; her sister's hospitalization and transfer to Sweden (she remained there, but never fully recovered); living with her other sister in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, then Fulda; their marriages; her sister's emigration to Israel in 1948; and hers to the United States in 1949. Ms. L. discusses wanting to forget these experiences for many years; speaking of them only with other survivors; recently speaking with others, including her two sons; and her husband's death when he was thirty-one. She shows photographs.

Extent and Medium

3 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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