Erinnerung verpflichtet : von Berlin über Brüssel nach Lyon in die Schweiz und durch Gurs nach Auschwitz : jüdische Schicksale 1933-1945

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1920 in Berlin. In 1933 she and her family (the Bernhards) immigrated to Belgium; in 1939 her parents were arrested, together with their elder son, and interned in Gurs and Saint-Cyprien. In 1942 her father died of a stroke, in Drancy, while her mother and brother were deported to Auschwitz. Lilli fled with her younger brother from Belgium to France in August 1942, and in December they crossed into Switzerland. In Lausanne, she worked for the Youth Aliyah home and as a representative of the Hashomer Hatzair. She married in 1944 and immigrated to Eretz-Israel with her husband in June 1945. Her elder brother was interned in Blechhammer and in 1945 survived a death march to Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald. Pp. 47-72 contain a report on Gurs written ca. 1949 by Elisabeth Bernhard, a cousin. 1. Aufl. 83, 10 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm