Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lucy L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, the second of three children. She recalls her family's leadership role in the Jewish community; their orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; participation in an Agudat Israel youth group; the Anschluss in 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions; preparations to emigrate; Nazis forcing her mother to scrub the street; confiscation of their apartment; witnessing their synagogue and its contents being burned on Kristallnacht; her parents arranging for her and her sister to join a children's transport organized by Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld; traveling to London via Rotterdam in December 1938; living in a B'nai B'rith children's home; attending school; correspondence with her parents; learning her brother had emigrated to Palestine and her parents to the United States; she and her sister joining them in May 1940; her father's death in 1943; marriage; and adopting two sons and the birth of a daughter. Ms. L. notes continuing fears due to her experiences. She shows photographs.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1993
- Interview Date
- September 9, 1993.
- Locale
- Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Rotterdam (Netherlands)
London (England) - Cite As
- Lucy L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2642). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 41 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Oral histories (document genres) Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Kristallnacht, 1938. Sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Kindertransports (Rescue operations) Austria. Vienna (Austria) Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938. Rotterdam (Netherlands) London (England) L., Lucy,--1923- Schonfeld, Solomon,--1912-1984. Agudat Israel. B'nai B'rith.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288470
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:31:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4288470
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