Jenny Z. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Jenny Z., who was born in Dzia?oszyce, Poland. She recalls living in Da?browa Go?rnicza; hostility toward Jewish businesses; German invasion; hiding in Czeladz?; arrest; incarceration in Sosnowiec; transfer to Oberaltstadt where she met her two sisters; slave labor in a textile factory; frequent selections; enduring prolonged appels; her younger sister's transfer (she did not survive); a Red Cross visit; severe punishment when her diary was discovered; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; a hostile response from the local Poles; meeting her future husband who was also a survivor; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; and their emigration to the United States. Mrs. Z. discusses sharing her experiences with her daughter and granddaughter.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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.
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Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- Z., Jenny.
Corporate Bodies
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- Sosnowiec (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Hiding.
- Antisemitism -- Postwar.
- Antisemitism -- Prewar.
- Refugee camps.
- Sisters.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Oberaltstadt (Czech Republic : Concentration camp)
- Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland)
- Czeladź (Poland)
- Poland.
- Działoszyce (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat