Dora L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2422) interviewed by Alberta Strage,

Videotape testimony of Dora L., who was born in Memel (presently Klaipėda), Lithuania, the third of four children. She recounts a happy childhood in a financially comfortable home; their move to Šiauliai; Soviet occupation; deportation of her mother's relatives to Siberia; her brother fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1941; German invasion; ghettoization; slave labor in a peat bog; returning to the ghetto in 1943; public hangings; deportation with her parents and sister to Stutthof; deaths of her mother and sister; slave labor digging anti-tank trenches; a German friend of her father giving her food; evacuation in April 1945 on barges to Neustadt in Holstein where they were liberated by British troops; hospitalization for tuberculosis; working as a translator; employment by UNRRA and the Joint establishing a children's home for Jewish orphans; learning her father had survived; living in Denmark; then in South Africa from 1953 to 1979, due to health problems resulting from her experiences; marriage; the births of two children; and emigrating to England.