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Lilly L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2767) interviewed by Gabrielle Tyrnauer,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2767

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Lilly L., a Romani, who was raised in Berlin in a family of fifteen children. She recalls her father working in the post office and her mother in a store; her father's German military service; one brother working as a policeman; Nazi anti-Romani restrictions, including her expulsion from school; her sister's deportation to Ravensbrück; deportation with her remaining family to Auschwitz in 1943 following an examination by "race scientists"; her father's murder during the transport; selection of her mother and eight siblings for death upon arrival; selections in the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); public executions of captured escapees; transfer to Ravensbrück; beatings and slave labor; transfer to Schlieben; slave labor in a munitions factory; and liberation by United States troops. Mrs. L. describes searching for relatives; reunion with her surviving siblings; marriage to another survivor; reluctance to share her experiences with her children because it is too painful for her; continuing hostility to Romanies in Germany; her own German identity; and her belief that the Romani lifestyle must change because of Neo-Nazism. She notes she cannot discuss details of the camps because it is too painful.
    Author/Creator
    L., Lilly.
    Published
    Austria : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
    Interview Date
    July 19, 1991.
    Locale
    Germany
    Berlin (Germany)
    Cite As
    Lilly L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2767). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Tyrnauer, Gabrielle, interviewer.
    Notes
    This testimony is in German.

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Copies
    2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (49 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Postwar experiences.
    Survivor-child relations.
    Postwar effects.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4288758
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:25:00
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