Lilly T. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Lilly T., who was born in Zawiercie, Poland in 1928, the youngest of seven children. She recalls her comfortable childhood; German invasion; hiding in bunkers during round-ups; attending a clandestine school; her brothers' deportation to labor camps; ghettoization; pervasive hunger; forced factory labor making military uniforms; her father hiding when the ghetto was liquidated (he perished); deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her mother and a newborn sibling (they were gassed); grueling appels; helping her sisters (they did not survive); working in a munitions factory; random selections; evacuation to Ravensbru?ck in January 1945; transfer to Malchow; liberation from a death march in Parchim by United States troops; returning to Poland; briefly staying with friends; moving to Germany; reunion with her four brothers; emigration to the United States in 1952; and marriage in 1954. Mrs. T. discusses her compulsion to share her experiences, including with her children; visiting Auschwitz in 1979; and recurring nightmares. She shows photographs.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- T., Lilly, -- 1928-
Corporate Bodies
- RavensbruĚck (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Malchow (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Sisters.
- Death marches.
- Jews -- Poland -- Zawiercie.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Postwar effects.
- Mutual aid.
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- Bunkers.
- Nightmares.
- Child survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Zawiercie (Poland)
- Poland.
- Zawiercie ghetto.
- Parchim (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat