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The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, , Czechoslovakia - regarding her childhood in Trutnov and in the Theresienstadt Ghetto.

The testimony of Liza Lotte Lily (Weiner) Bruml, born in 1923 in Trutnov, Czechoslovakia. Childhood in Trutnov; escaping with family members before the annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany in 1938; moved to the area of the border with the Czechoslovakia; life on a relative's farm for a few weeks; move to Prague; the German occupation; her brother's illegal immigration to Eretz Israel in 1939; life under the Nazi regime; restrictions imposed on the Jews; deportation of the parents and the grandmother to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in 1942; death of her grandmother; life in the ghetto; parents’ labor in a factory that manufactured wooden toys for German children and boxes for packing ammunition; visit of the Red Cross delegation to the ghetto in 1944; liberation by the Red Army in 1945; return to Trutnov; work in Prague in 1946; escaping with her parents to Vienna after the rise of the Communist Party to power in 1948; emigrated to Britain in 1949; marriage; life in London.
item Id
9440784
First Name
Liese
Lily
Lotte
Last Name
Bruml
Maiden Name
Weiner
Date of Birth
02/09/1923
Place of Birth
Trutnov, Czechoslovakia
Type of material
Testimony
File Number
13502
Language
English
Record Group
O.3 - Testimonies Department of the Yad Vashem Archives
Date of Creation - earliest
09/05/2011
Date of Creation - latest
09/05/2011
Name of Submitter
BRUML LIESE LOTTE LILY
Original
YES
No. of pages/frames
96
Interview Location
ISRAEL
Form of Testimony
Video
Dedication
Moshal Repository, Yad Vashem Archival Collection