Overview
- Interview Summary
- Viewer note: This interview was recorded using two cameras. One camera recorded a wide shot showing both the interviewer signing questions in American Sign Language and the interviewee signing answers in ASL. The other camera recorded a closer shot of the interviewee alone. Viewers may want to open two web browser windows so that they can see both camera angles at one time.
- Interviewee
- Lilly Rattner Shirey
- Date
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interview:
2008
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Verena Krausneker
Physical Details
- Language
- American Sign Language
- Extent
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digital files : MOV.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Deaf. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors--United States. Jewish children in the Holocaust--Austria. Jewish families--Austria. Jewish refugees--United States. Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Geographic Name
- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) United States--Emigration and immigration. Vienna (Austria)
- Personal Name
- Shirey, Lilly Rattner, 1932-
- Corporate Name
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Dr. Verena Krausneker donated her interview with Lilly Rattner Shirey to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2020. The interview was produced as part of the research project “Deaf Austrians and National Socialism” by Verena Krausneker and Katharina Schalber
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:07:34
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Oral History
Viewer note: This interview was recorded using two cameras. One camera recorded a wide shot showing both the interviewer signing questions in American Sign Language and the interviewee signing answers in ASL. The other camera recorded a closer shot of the interviewee alone. Viewers may want to open two web browser windows so that they can see both camera angles at one time. Hedy Stern discusses the experiences of her mother Helen Lemberger, a Deaf Jew born in 1915 in Vienna, Austria, and her grandparents Hedwig and Richard Lemberger.
