Testimony of Lucy Mandelshtam, born in Vienna, Austria, 1926, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, near Marienburg, a forest, while using a false identity and in other places
Testimony of Lucy Mandelshtam, born in Vienna, Austria, 1926, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, near Marienburg, a forest, while using a false identity and in other places
Testimony
Testimony of Lucy Mandelshtam, born in Vienna, Austria, 1926, regarding her experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Stutthof, near Marienburg, a forest, while using a false identity and in other places
Life before the war; relations with the Austrian neighbors.
Deportation of her father to Dachau; deportation to Theresienstadt with her mother, 1942; camp life including activities of a group of young people; transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944; transfer to Stutthof, August 1944; labor in a village near Marienburg; meets German children; labor in an extension of Stutthof near Elbing; life near Elbing including labor building anti-tank trenches; death march; escape to a forest; receives help from a group of Italians in Pasewalk; life while using a false identity as an Austrian woman; hospitalization in a German hospital.
Move to the British occupied zone; aliya to Israel, 1948; life in Israel; locates her father in the Soviet Union, 1959.
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3560900
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Lucy
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Mandelshtam
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1926
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Wien, Austria
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Testimony
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English
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O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives