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Lili B. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1010) interviewed by Elizabeth Jacob and Gitta Fajerstein,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1010

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Lili B., who was born in Transylvania. She recalls Hungarian occupation; moving to Budapest in 1942; working as a seamstress; German occupation in 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; a difficult journey home; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family; helping each other stand during appells; forced labor in Gelsenkirchen; liberation from a death march by Soviet troops; returning home; learning one brother had survived; living with her uncles; illegally traveling to Vienna in 1945 with a Zionist group; moving to the Leipheim displaced persons camp in 1946; reunion with her brother; marriage in 1947; and emigration from Marseille to Israel in July 1948. Mrs. B. describes military service in the Israel-Arab War; discharge from service while her husband remained; her son's birth in 1949 and her daughter's in 1958; her husband's emigration to the United States; and following him in 1959. She discusses her depression during the 1960s.
Author/Creator: B., Lili.
Published: Wilmette, Ill. : Holocaust Education Foundation, 1987
Interview Date: December 13, 1987.
Locale: Transylvania (Romania)
Budapest (Hungary)
Marseille (France)
Israel
Cite As: Lili B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1010). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Jacob, Elizabeth, interviewer.
Fajerstein, Gitta, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 16 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hungarian occupation.
Postwar experiences.
Mutual aid.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Death marches. Forced labor. Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Transylvania (Romania) Budapest (Hungary) Marseille (France) Israel. Oral histories (document genres) Refugee camps. B., Lili. Gelsenkirchen (Concentration camp) Leipheim (Displaced persons camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

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/1110365
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:32:00
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