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Oral history interview with Gloria Lyon

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.420 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0420

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    Oral history interview with Gloria Lyon

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    Interview Summary
    The interviews describe Ms. Lyon's childhood in Nagy-Bereg, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), the annexation by Hungary of the area where she lived in 1938, the onset of antisemitic laws, and by 1944, being forced to wear a yellow star and sit in back of the classroom. Ms. Lyon describes the deportation of all Jews in her village to Auschwitz, the selection process, and her experiences in Birkenau where she worked with her mother, younger sister, aunt and cousins. She describes being selected for the gas chambers and her escape from this fate. Ms. Lyon discusses her transfer to Bergen-Belsen, digging mass graves, being sent to Braunschweig, Bendorf, Hamburg and Hannover to perform various kinds of labor, and her experiences in Ravensbrück concentration camp. She describes her liberation by the Swedish Red Cross in the White Buses Rescue operation headed by Count Bernadotte. Ms. Lyon discusses living in Sweden, where she recuperated, emigrating to the United States in 1947 to live with her aunt, and her marriage and family life. She discusses her work speaking to school groups about her experiences during the Holocaust, a documentary about her, and her autobiography.
    Interviewee
    Gloria H. Lyon
    Date
    interview:  1989 February 13
    interview:  1990 September 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Gloria Lyon on February 13, 1989 and September 11, 1990. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 2002.
    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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