| Title: |
Lily Fenster
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Michigan, Dearborn. Mardigian Library
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| Collection: |
Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
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| Series: |
Item 2 of Series Lily Fenster
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| Description: |
An interview with Lily Fenster, a Holocaust survivor, conducted by Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Lily Fenster was born in Warsaw Poland in 1926. After the German invasion of Poland, Lily, along with her mother, father and five sisters, was placed in the Warsaw Ghetto. After some time, Lily was able to escape from the ghetto, leaving her family behind. In the ghetto, her four sisters died from hunger and her father disappeared. After making her way to Luków Podlaski, Lily was able to work on a farm and raised enough money to have her mother smuggled from the ghetto. Within six weeks of the reunion, Lily's mother was deported to Treblinka. Lily, having obtained a Kennkarte, and hiding among the Gentile population was able to evade capture. After her mother's deportation, Lily moved into the main city of Luków Podlaski, where she obtained work as a nurse, until the Russian liberation. While in Luków Podlaski she met her future husband. After the war, Lily, along with several others, made her way to Lódz and then on to Germany. She emigrated to the United States in 1951.
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| URL: |
http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/fenster/
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1994 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Fenster, Lily, 1926-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1926
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland; Mazowieckie, Poland; Poland; Europe
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Age at speaking: |
68
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| Document date: |
10-Nov-1994
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| Interviewer: |
Bolkosky, Sidney
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| Organizations discussed: |
Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Poland, 1940-1945; Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, 1940-1945; Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, 1937-1945; Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 1933-1945; National Socialist German Workers Party, Germany
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| Historical events discussed: |
Holocaust, 1938-1945; World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; Asia; Austria; Budapest, Pest, Hungary; Czech Republic; Europe; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; North America; North Holland, Netherlands; Pest, Hungary; Poland; Romania; Russia; Ukraine; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands; Asia; Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Oswiecim, Poland, 1940-1945; Austria; Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, 1940-1945; Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, 1937-1945; Budapest, Pest, Hungary; Concentration camps; Czech Republic; Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, 1933-1945; Europe; Germany; Holocaust, 1938-1945; Hungary; Jewish ghettos; Jews--United States; Labor camps; National Socialist German Workers Party, Germany; Netherlands; North America; North Holland, Netherlands; Oral history; Pest, Hungary; Poland; Romania; Russia; Ukraine; United States; World War II, 1939-1945
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025162-27013
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