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Shulamit L. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4411) interviewed by Susan Millen and Barbara Hadley Katz,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4411

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Shulamit L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recounts her family's poverty; attending public school; her parents' divorce; living with her mother; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in expulsion from school; participating in a Zionist youth group; her father's remarriage; Kristallnacht; her father's emigration to the United States; her emigration with other children via Trieste to Palestine in 1940; receiving a postcard from her mother in Theresienstadt; living with a family in Jerusalem, then at a children's village; learning after the war, through the Red Cross, that her mother had been deported to Auschwitz; visiting her father in 1947; marriage; moving to London in 1953; her daughter's birth; emigration to the United States; and her second daughter's birth. Ms. L. discusses visiting Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and her family's apartment in Vienna thirteen years ago; and revisiting Vienna at the invitation of the Austrian government.
Author/Creator: L., Shulamit, 1927-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 2008
Interview Date: February 14, 2008.
Locale: Austria
Vienna (Austria)
Palestine
Trieste (Italy)
London (England)
Cite As: Shulamit L. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4411). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Millen, Susan, interviewer.
Katz, Barbara Hadley, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: DVCam Master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (40 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Child survivors.
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. Kristallnacht, 1938. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Austria. Vienna (Austria) Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938. Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Trieste (Italy) London (England) Oral histories (document genres) L., Shulamit,--1927- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

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/8118618
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:45:00
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