Lieselott E. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lieselott E., who was born in Parchim, Germany in 1920. She recalls holiday observances in the local synagogue; deteriorating conditions beginning in 1933; the arrest and brief imprisonment of all Jews in Parchim in 1935; her father's belief that conditions would improve; laws banning her from school; visiting relatives in other cities so she could be anonymous; her father's stroke in 1936; destruction of their house and business on Kristallnacht and her father's second stroke; and fleeing to Berlin, where he died. She recounts returning home with her mother; selling the house to pay fines levied against the Jews for damage done on Kristallnacht; confiscation of their gold and silver; an invitation to meet a potential husband in Aruba; parting from her mother (she never saw her again); marriage in Aruba in September 1939; prohibition of her mother's emigration to Aruba after Germany invaded Holland; and emigration to the United States in 1950.

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