- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lilly M., who was born in Most (Most-Brux), Czechoslovakia in 1918. She remembers meeting Jewish children from Germany in 1938 and not believing their stories; attending medical school in Prague; the outbreak of war; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to Terezín; seeing her parents for the last time before their deportation from Terezín; volunteering to work with the elderly; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her husband (she never saw him again); appells, beatings, and selections; forced labor in Birnbaumel; liberation by Soviet troops; and remaining with her friend at the camp to help the aged. Mrs. M. recalls train travel with Russians to Czechoslovakia; brief stops in Košice and Bratislava; moving to Prague; working as an X-ray technician; remarriage; deciding to leave Czechoslovakia after the Soviets took over; illegally crossing the Czech border with her second husband; staying in Munich with the assistance of a Jewish refugee organization; difficulty proving she was Jewish because her husband was Catholic; moving to England; emigration to the United States; and her adjustment to a new life.
- Author/Creator
- M., Lilly, 1918-
- Published
- Kansas City, Mo. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994
- Interview Date
- May 6, 1994.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Most (Czech Republic)
Bratislava (Slovakia)
Munich (Germany)
Prague (Czech Republic)
Košice (Slovakia)
- Cite As
- Lilly M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2410). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Cook, Allan, interviewer.
Dover, Janice M., interviewer.
