Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Edith Z., who was born in Olkusz, Poland in 1921, one of four children. She recounts attending public and Hebrew schools; German invasion; fleeing briefly; ghettoization; transfer with a brother and sister to the Będzin ghetto; forced labor as a seamstress; a round-up (her brother was shot, her sister disappeared); deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1943; meeting her future husband; a death march to Ravensbrück; transfer to Neustadt/Glewe; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Terezín; returning home; learning no one in her immediate family had survived; marriage; moving to Föhrenwald displaced persons camp; her daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States with assistance from HIAS.
- Published
- Union, N.J. : Kean College Oral Testimonies Project, 1987
- Interview Date
- November 24, 1987.
- Locale
- Poland
Olkusz
Będzin
Olkusz (Poland)
Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic) - Cite As
- Edith Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1245). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (50 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar experiences.
- Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Poland--Olkusz. Jews--Poland--Będzin. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Death marches. Refugee camps. Poland. Olkusz (Poland) Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic) Oral histories (document genres) Z., Edith,--1921- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp) Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp) HIAS (Agency)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4294937
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4294937
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