Testimony of Lili (Deresievicz) Ayalon, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1926, about her emigration to the United States after the Anschluss and the deportation of Jews lacking Czechoslovak citizenship

Testimony of Lili (Deresievicz) Ayalon, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1926, about her emigration to the United States after the Anschluss and the deportation of Jews lacking Czechoslovak citizenship Family background; father: fur agent with dealings in shoes and textiles; traditional family; witness attends a Jewish public school in which Christian children are also enrolled; description of studies; Professor Baruch Kurzweil; many Jewish classmates are murdered during the war; refugees from Austria and Germany arrive; witness exposed to antisemitic slogans while visiting grandparents in Cesky Tesin; pro-Nazi demonstrations; parents decide to escape from Europe in the aftermath of the Anschluss and the deportation of Jews lacking Czechoslovak citizenship; preparations for war in Brno; parting with grandparents in Cesky Tesin, which has become part of Poland; antisemitic slogans in the streets; emigration to New York; acclimatization.