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Oral history interview with Lily Margules

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.84 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0084

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    Oral history interview with Lily Margules

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lily Margules discusses her family’s experiences during the Holocaust; the three layers of Jewish society in her village of Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania); learning Yiddish in the ghetto; her mother's death from cancer in 1939; moving from Vilna to Soły (Salos), Lithuania; the 1943 liquidation of the ghetto in Soły; being sent with her sister to the labor camp Dünawerke; her father’s deportation to the Kaiserwald concentration camp; surviving the labor camp with her sister and staying at a displaced persons camp in Italy after the war; how her uncle secured papers for Lily and her sister that stated they were Protestants; immigrating to Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1948; marrying and raising two sons; and immigrating to the United States in 1956.
    Interviewee
    Lily Margules
    Interviewer
    Anthony DiIorio
    Date
    interview:  1992 April 20

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (90 min.).

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Margules, Lily, 1924-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Anthony Dilorio, of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ID Card Project, conducted the interview with Lily Margules in Bronx, N.Y., on April 20, 1992.
    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 08:23:57
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