Gilda Z. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 3030
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Gilda Z., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in approximately 1916. She recounts her mother's death when she was a baby; her father's remarriage; moving to Ciechocinek; joyous holiday celebrations; living briefly with relatives in Łódź; German invasion; fleeing with her brother to Soviet territory; seeing her future husband in Brest; exile to a work camp in the Archangelʹskai︠a︡ region of Siberia; imprisonment after a failed escape attempt; traveling with her brother to Tashkent; encountering her future husband again; forced labor; marriage; her son's birth in Kirgiziya; her brother's enlistment in the military; a letter from him saying no Jews were alive in Poland; her daughter's birth; traveling to Szczecin in 1945; smuggling themselves to Berlin; reunion with a sister and brother; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in 1951.

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.

Related Units of Description

  • Associated material: Holocaust testimony Mayer Z. [husband] (HVT-3031), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • Z., Gilda, -- 1916?-

Corporate Bodies

  • Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)

Subjects

  • Women.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • Jews -- Migrations.
  • Refugees, Jewish.
  • Brothers and sisters.
  • Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Soviet Union.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
  • Escapes.
  • Husband and wife.
  • Family.
  • Refugee camps.
  • Postwar experiences.

Places

  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Ciechocinek (Poland)
  • Siberia (Russia)
  • Brest (Belarus)
  • Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
  • Archangelʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (R.S.F.S.R.)
  • Szczecin (Poland)
  • Kirgiziya (Kazakhstan)
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Poland.
  • Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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