Liesel A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2061) [videorecording] / interviewed by Alizah Brozgold, May 3, 1992.

New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992.

1 videorecording (56 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Liesel A., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1930, one of four children. She recalls their affluence; destruction of their home on Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration and release from Dachau; his telling her she was going to camp before she was smuggled to France by a non-Jewish woman using her own child's documents; placement in a children's home in Paris; German invasion; traveling to Limoges with a group of Jewish children who were being brought to the United States by Quakers; stopping in Gurs so some children could visit their parents; traveling to Madrid in 1941; a brief stay in a convent; traveling to Portugal, then the United States; assistance from the Red Cross; living in foster homes and with her aunt; two phone conversations with her parents (their last contact); a lasting relationship with her final foster family; marriage; and the births of two children. Mrs. A. discusses her childhood hope for reunion with her parents; one sister who survived; reluctance to share her experiences with her children; admiration for her parents' courage in sending their children away; and resolving emotional difficulties when her daughter reached the same age she had been when she last saw her parents. She shows photographs.

June 01, 2002

Liesel A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2061). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Liesel A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2061). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Oral histories (document genres)