Uri Z. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Uri Z., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1907. Mr. Z. describes his education as an accountant; his mother's death when he was sixteen; estrangement from his father; leaving home; studying voice and drama; a successful singing career; performances in many European countries; and his 1938 marriage in ?o?dz?. He recalls the German invasion; enlistment in the Polish army; capture by Germans; transport with some 3000 POWs to cities in Poland and Germany, terminating in Krako?w; escape; return to ?o?dz?; fleeing with his wife to the Soviet zone; travel to Bia?ystok; performing in the Soviet Union; the German invasion; being drafted into the Soviet army; escape to Kiev; transfer to Tashkent; enlistment in Anders's Polish army; rampant antisemitism; and transfer to Palestine for training. Mr. Z. remembers deserting (over 3000 Jewish enlistees did so); hiding until the Polish army departed; learning in 1948 from his wife's brother of her death in Poland; success as a stage and radio singer in Israel; emigration to the United States in 1952; and his marriage.

2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)