Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Oral history interview with Marcel Lissek

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.43 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0043

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    Oral history interview with Marcel Lissek

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Marcel Lissek, born in Paris, France in 1937, describes his father, who left Cologne, Germany around 1933 because of rising antisemitism; his mother, who moved from Poland to France; his father being sent to a detention camp then Auschwitz, where he died in 1942; his mother working as a tailor in Paris; not being able to remember much about the time before the war; his mother becoming sick with heart problems and high blood pressure around the beginning of the war; being taken with his older brother, Leon, to a safe district in Paris that was run by an organization for the safety of children; he and the other children being taken from one place to another; staying with Leon throughout the war and reuniting with his younger brother, Jacques, in 1947; life in hiding and only seeing his mother a few times during the war; having to wear a yellow star; narrowly escaping the Germans on several occasions; staying in the castle of Fontainebleau outside Paris from 1944 to 1947; seeing American and Canadian troops coming through after the war; his memories of staying in caves during the war; the deportation of Jews from France, and his mother being released by the German officers when she could prove that she had a baby at home; his mother hiding in a shack behind her home from the Germans; his mother marrying a former prisoner of war, who had relatives in Buffalo, NY; waiting five years for visas to the United States; arriving in New York in 1950 and seeing the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island; arriving in Buffalo shortly before his bar mitzvah; his continued attempts to have French authorities find friends and relatives; his friends and relatives being unaware of his Holocaust experiences; and his belief that one should not be too materialistic and that the most important things are life, love, and family.
    Interviewee
    Marcel Lissek
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    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
    Lissek, Marcel, 1937-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Marcel Lissek with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:08:25
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/irn511806

    Additional Resources

    Download & Licensing

    In-Person Research

    Contact Us