Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Lily L., who was born in Tolcsva, Hungary, in 1928. She describes prewar life in the small town where her family lived for generations; deportation to the ghetto in Sátoraljaújhely; experiences in Auschwitz and as a slave laborer in Latvia and Germany; her return to Tolcsva after liberation; postwar experiences in France; emigration to the United States; and the importance of her husband and children in her life.
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1983
- Interview Date
- June 6, 1983.
- Locale
- Hungary
Sátoraljaújhely
Tolcsva (Hungary)
Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary)
Latvia
Miskolc (Hungary)
Stuttgart (Germany)
Leipzig (Germany)
Taverny (France) - Cite As
- Lily L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-43). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in. VHS is linked to finding aid by time coding.
Related publication: The silence / by Lily Gluck Lerner, with Sandra Lee Stuart. -- 1st ed. -- Secaucus, N.J. : L. Stuart, c1980.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 53 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Forced labor. Holocaust survivors. Jews--Hungary--Sátoraljaújhely. Jewish ghettos. Hungary. Tolcsva (Hungary) Sátoraljaújhely (Hungary) Latvia. Miskolc (Hungary) Stuttgart (Germany) Leipzig (Germany) Taverny (France) Oral histories (document genres) L., Lily,--1928-1988. Kaiserwald (Concentration camp) Dondangen (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/616217
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:28:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt616217
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