Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.128 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0128Ĭecilia Kornbluth (née Cilli Mehlman), born on October 11, 1920, discusses her childhood in Vienna, Austria her early experiences with antisemitism in elementary school and gymnasium her memories of the assassination of Engelbert Dollfuss, Chancellor of Austria, by Austrian Nazis in 1934 the Anschluss in March 1938 the changes that occurred for Jewish Austrians afterward her two older brothers fleeing to France and to Switzerland the arrests of her younger brother, father, and mother her father's eventual deportation to Auschwitz her brother's incarceration in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps for 11 months, and his release and move to England the events of Kristallnacht in November 1938 being sent for by her brother in Switzerland her illegal crossing into Switzerland hiding because she lacked legal papers being questioned and released living and working in a refugee camp for single Jewish girls in Basel living there throughout the war marrying another refugee who was living in a single man's camp in 1942 having a son being supported by the Jewish community during this period her immigration to the United States in 1947 and her family and work life in the United States.
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