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01/11/88
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Bernard Weinstein

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Lucie J., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1924, an only child. She recounts antisemitic harassment; membership in a Jewish sports club; attending a swim meet in Breslau; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's arrest and deportation to Dachau in May 1938; eviction from their home; living with an aunt; participating in a Zionist youth group; a non-Jew warning them to leave their Jewish neighborhood prior to Kristallnacht; staying with friends in another area; her mother sending her to London in January 1939 on a Kindertransport organized by Hakoah; learning of her father's release and her parents' emigration to Palestine; moving to a Jewish children's home in Newcastle; preparing to emigrate to Palestine at a Zionist agricultural camp; emigration and reunion with her parents in Palestine; living in a Youth Aliyah village; returning to England to marry a Jewish soldier after the war; her daughter's birth; her husband's death sixteen years later; emigration to join her parents in the United States; remarriage; and her son's birth.

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