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Lily L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-43) interviewed by Dana L. Kline

Oral History | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-43

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.

Author/Creator: L., Lily, 1928-1988.
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)
Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Cite As: Lily L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-43). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr., 53 min.) : col
Other Authors/Editors: Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
Notes: Unpublished finding aid available in repository; 1/2 in.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.
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
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)
Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
: View in 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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