Greta Z. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Greta Z., who was born in the Hague, Netherlands, in 1913. Mrs. Z. recalls the German occupation in 1940; imposition of anti-Semitic restrictions; round-up of her parents and brother in 1942 (they never returned); and deportation with her husband and two daughters to Westerbork in September 1943. She describes the family's transport to Bergen-Belsen in early 1944; daily routine in the camp, including her exemption from work because she was a woman with children; and visits by her husband (he was in a different barrack). She tells of the family's evacuation in April 1945; two weeks on a transport; liberation by the Russians at Shildau; taking over a private home there; repatriation via Leipzig to Holland in July 1945; and the family's emigration to the United States in 1953.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (3/4" u-matic)
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. This testimony may not be used without prior permission of the donor or her heirs.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- Z., Greta, -- 1913-
Corporate Bodies
- Westerbork (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Husband and wife.
- Family.
- Concentration camp inmates -- Family relationships.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Hague (Netherlands)
- Netherlands.
- Leipzig (Germany)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- ftamc