Overview
- Summary
- 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.
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- February 17, 1993.
- Locale
- Lithuania
Šiauliai
Klaipėda (Lithuania)
Šiauliai (Lithuania)
Neustadt in Holstein (Germany) - Cite As
- Dora L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2422). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 58 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Soviet occupation.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Postwar effects. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Lithuania--Šiauliai. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Mothers and daughters. Sisters. Lithuania. Klaipėda (Lithuania) Šiauliai (Lithuania) Neustadt in Holstein (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) L., Dora. Stutthof (Concentration camp) American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4287479
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:39:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4287479
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