- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lea-Lily S., who was born in Larisa, Greece in 1903. She recalls her five brothers; attending teacher's college in Thessalonikē; marriage; her daughter's birth; divorce; her immediate family escaping to Palestine, via Turkey after German invasion; not leaving with them due to her illness; obtaining false papers; her brother's friend hiding her and her daughter in a nearby village; leaving because she feared exposing her rescuers; traveling by boat to Skopelos Island in June, 1943; teaching in the local school; detention by German troops; a German releasing her with a warning not to be outside too much; the Germans leaving for another island where they executed many, then leaving Skopelos permanently a few weeks later; sending her daughter to school in the United States; joining her there; and returning to Thessalonikē three years ago. Ms. S. discusses many relatives who did not escape from Thessalonikē and were killed; her parents remaining in Israel for the rest of their lives; and the emigration of three brothers' to the United States.
- Author/Creator
- S., Lea-Lily, 1903-
- Published
- Thessalonikē, Greece : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
- Interview Date
- June 1, 1993.
- Locale
- Larisa (Greece)
Greece
Thessalonikē (Greece)
Skopelos Island (Greece)
- Cite As
- Lea-Lily S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2793). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Almuli, Jaša, interviewer.
