Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lucie J., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, an only child. She recounts antisemitic harassment; membership in a Jewish sports club; attending a swim meet in Breslau; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's arrest and deportation to Dachau in May 1938; eviction from their home; living with an aunt; participating in a Zionist youth group; a non-Jew warning them to leave their Jewish neighborhood prior to Kristallnacht; staying with friends in another area; her mother sending her to London in January 1939 on a Kindertransport organized by Hakoah; learning of her father's release and her parents' emigration to Palestine; moving to a Jewish children's home in Newcastle; preparing to emigrate to Palestine at a Zionist agricultural camp; emigration and reunion with her parents in Palestine; living in a Youth Aliyah village; returning to England to marry a Jewish soldier after the war; her daughter's birth; her husband's death sixteen years later; emigration to join her parents in the United States; remarriage; and her son's birth.
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1988
- Interview Date
- November 15, 1988.
- Locale
- Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Wrocław (Poland)
London (England)
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Palestine - Cite As
- Lucie J. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1252). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Crystal Night, 1938.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Zionists. Kristallnacht, 1938. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Kindertransports (Rescue operations) Austria. Vienna (Austria) Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938. Wrocław (Poland) London (England) Newcastle upon Tyne (England) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Oral histories (document genres) J., Lucie,--1924- Sportklub Hakoah. Jewish Agency for Israel.--Youth Aliyah Department.--Mador le-hadrakhah.
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/4294951
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:33:00
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