Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Ellis, Carolyn; Patti, Christopher J.
Publication Date
3-14-2011
Date
2010-05-04
Abstract
Oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Lilly Salcman. Salcman was born in Khust in 1922 and was the youngest of five siblings. She was attending school in Brno when the Sudetenland was annexed in 1938, and she was forced to return home. In March 1944 the Germans invaded her hometown and, after four weeks of occupation, began deporting the Jews to Auschwitz. Salcman was sent to Birkenau, where she became the storyteller for the other women in her barrack, reciting parts of Gone with the wind for them. In return, they gave her extra food. She was in Auschwitz for about six months before being sent to a labor camp in Zittau, where several German people gave her food and other assistance. After the war ended, she made her way to Prague, where she met her first husband, whom she married in 1946. She was widowed in 1971 and then, several years later, met her second husband, Arthur Salcman, who was also a Holocaust survivor. In the last third of this interview, Mr. and Mrs. Salcman discuss how they met, their family, and how being Holocaust survivors has affected them.
Keywords
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Ukraine--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Jewish women in the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors' families, Holocaust survivors--Florida, Holocaust survivors--Interviews, Genocide, Crimes against humanity
Holding Location
University of South Florida
Language
English
Media Type
Oral histories; Online audio
Format
audio/mp3
Identifier
F60-00026
Recommended Citation
Salcman, Lilly and Salcman, Arthur, "Lilly Salcman and Arthur Salcman oral history interview" (2011). Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project. 18.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/holocaust_OH/18
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