Lilly G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
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.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
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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
- G., Lilly, -- 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- HIAS (Agency)
Subjects
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Child survivors.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Postwar experiences.
- False papers.
- Crystal Night, 1938.
- Survivor-child relations.
Places
- Austria.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Paris (France)
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Antwerp (Belgium)
- Austria -- History -- Anschluss, 1938.
- Cuba.
- Casablanca (Morocco)
- Marseille (France)
- Nice (France)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat