Oral History Interview with Lillian Steinig
Lillian Edelstein Steinig, born January 23, 1923 in Stryj, Poland (Stryĭ, Ukraine), describes her father, who was a merchant and farmer until the Russian occupation in 1939; her father being forced to give up his large farm to the Soviet authority; her family moving to the city, where her father worked in a lumber yard; attending a strict Russian school with her younger brother until 1941 when the Germans occupied Stryj and relocated Jews; Jewish attempts to hide and the 1942 round up of Jews, including her father and brother; how her father and brother jumped from a moving cattle car and returned home; receiving aid from non-Jewish Poles, who gave her false identification papers and hid her brother and parents; a Polish family in Przedborz sheltering her until 1945; her trip through the Russian zone at the war's end for a reunion with her family, who moved briefly to Krakow; Antisemitic outbreaks in Krakow; being forced to flee to a displaced persons camp in Austria in 1946; working in Linz, Austria with her brother in Simon Wiesenthal's Jewish Identification Center; the family immigrating to the United States in January 1949 aboard the SS Marina; and joining relatives in Philadelphia, PA.
Date: | 04/22/1982 |
Interviewer: | Joan Sadoff |
Interviewee: | Lillian Steinig |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Hidden children (Holocaust)--Ukraine. Hiding places--Poland. Hiding places--Ukraine. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Identification cards--Forgeries--Ukraine. Jewish families--Ukraine. Jews--Ukraine--Stryĭ. Refugee camps--Austria. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Ukraine. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Ukraine. Women--Personal narratives. Austria. Kraków (Poland) Linz (Austria) Philadelphia (Pa.) Poland--Ethnic relations. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Przedbórz (Łódź, Poland) Stryĭ (Ukraine) Ukraine--History--German occupation, 1941-1944. United States--Emigration and immigration. Steinig, Lillian. Simon Wiesenthal Center. |
Location: | Stryi, Ukraine Przedbórz, Poland Krakow, Poland Linz-Bindermichl displaced persons camp Linz, Austria USA |
Permalink: | https://hoha.digitalcollections.gratzcollege.edu/item/oral-history-interview-with-lillian-steinig/ |
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