Edith Z. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
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 Be?dzin 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 Ravensbru?ck; transfer to Neustadt/Glewe; liberation by United States troops; traveling to Terezi?n; returning home; learning no one in her immediate family had survived; marriage; moving to Fo?hrenwald displaced persons camp; her daughter's birth; and emigration to the United States with assistance from HIAS.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- Z., Edith, -- 1921-
Corporate Bodies
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Neustadt-Glewe (Concentration camp)
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
- HIAS (Agency)
- Föhrenwald (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Poland -- Olkusz.
- Jews -- Poland -- Będzin.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Postwar experiences.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- Death marches.
- Refugee camps.
Places
- Będzin ghetto.
- Terezín (Severočeský kraj, Czech Republic)
- Olkusz ghetto.
- Poland.
- Olkusz (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat