United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A Quaker organization helped Lily Zelenka and her husband Carlo safeguard their sons Martin and Charles from the Holocaust via a Kindertransport to England. Lily and Carlo survived Theresienstadt and deportation to Auschwitz where Carlo perished. Lily was then transferred for forced labor in Hamburg and Neuengraben before being liberated at Bergen Belsen.
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Little Lily: Lily Zelenka biography is arranged as a single file.
Contains the remembrances of Lily Zelenka in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, as a victim of deportation, prisoner in several concentration camps, and survivor of the Holocaust."Little Lil" covers a general span of time from 1900 through the 1950s."Little Lil" was written by Claire Ramsay as told to her by Lily Zelenka in 1981.
Lily Zelenka biography "Little Lil"