Lisa F. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Lisa F., who was born in Ungvar, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Uz?h?horod, Ukraine) in 1909. She recalls living in Vienna and Budapest; the family's move to Berlin in 1922; her parents encouraging her political interests; participating in socialist groups; the Nazi ascent to power; crossing a Nazi picket line during the anti-Jewish boycott in April 1933; her parents' emigration to Prague; remaining in Berlin to continue her political activities; producing and distributing anti-Nazi leaflets; joining her family to live in Prague from 1933 to 1935; marriage to a non-Jewish, anti-Nazi activist; smuggling literature and people from Germany to Basel and Holland; emigration to Paris in 1938 with her family; the outbreak of war; brief internment of her brother and husband as enemy aliens; German invasion; incarceration in Gurs as an enemy alien; her release; reunion with her husband and brother; obtaining foreign visas in Marseille; smuggling Walter Benjamin to Spain through the Pyrenees; regularly smuggling people, with her husband, to Spain under the auspices of an American organization; and their emigration to Cuba with assistance from that organization. Mrs. F. focuses on the anti-Nazi elements of her experiences.

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