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Unrestricted - Fortunoff Video Archive
Date of Interview:
01/02/08
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Susan Millen

Interview Summary
Videotape testimony of Shulamit L., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recounts her family's poverty; attending public school; her parents' divorce; living with her mother; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish restrictions resulting in expulsion from school; participating in a Zionist youth group; her father's remarriage; Kristallnacht; her father's emigration to the United States; her emigration with other children via Trieste to Palestine in 1940; receiving a postcard from her mother in Theresienstadt; living with a family in Jerusalem, then at a children's village; learning after the war, through the Red Cross, that her mother had been deported to Auschwitz; visiting her father in 1947; marriage; moving to London in 1953; her daughter's birth; emigration to the United States; and her second daughter's birth. Ms. L. discusses visiting Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and her family's apartment in Vienna thirteen years ago; and revisiting Vienna at the invitation of the Austrian government.

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