Testimony of Miriam (Lilienfeld) Weiss, born in Wien, Austria, 1928, regarding the Anschluss and her transport to England via Kindertransport, March 1939

Family background; her father was active in the Zionist community; comfortable life; studies at a public school; studies at a Jewish school; good relations with neighbors; Anschluss, 1938; an apartment that became vacant in the building was converted into a Nazi headquarters; her parents’ efforts to leave Austria; living under Nazi rule for about a year; sent with her younger sister on a Kindertransport by train to the Netherlands, March 1939; sailing to England; arrival at the home of a religious Jewish family in London; discomfort; attends school. Outbreak of the war, 1939; the Blitz; escape with her sister and with the foster family to Brighton; life in the city; studies at school; arrival of her father. Quick adjustment; her father’s trip to Italy and sailing from there with her mother to Eretz Israel; she and her sister sail on the ship "Queen Elizabeth"; arrival in Eretz Israel, December 1940; quick absorption in Jerusalem.