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Oral history interview with Lili Ofek

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.113 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0113

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    Oral history interview with Lili Ofek

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lili Ofek (née Ticho), born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, describes her large close family who was assimilated but kept Jewish traditions; living in Floridsdorf (21. Bezirk); experiencing antisemitism; her family trying to leave Vienna; going in December 1938 to Holland with a group of children; her trip and arrival in a children's home; her parents’ escape to Czechoslovakia and eventual illegal journey to Palestine; her adjustment and life with 40 other children in Loosdrecht, Netherlands; how she was supposed to leave for Palestine in 1940 but the war broke out in Holland; being saved from going to a labor camp in Germany and taken care of by the Jewish underground; life and conditions in the Loosdrecht children's house; being taken with other children to Westerbork, where they worked in a factory; how she got out of Westerbork to the underground in Amsterdam from there to Rotterdam and from there to a safe house in Sevenum; her post-war work finding hidden children and organizing a children's house in Arnhem; and her reunification with her parents in Palestine.
    Interviewee
    Lili Ofek
    Date
    interview:  1992 September 12
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    5 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ofek, Lili, 1923-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Lili Ofek in Israel on September 12, 1992, for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:15:02
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