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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Country: United States

  1. Zuzana H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zuzana H., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1927. She describes attending English school; expulsion due to anti-Jewish laws; her father being fired (he was a physician); deportation to Theresienstadt with her parents in July 1943; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in September; her father's selection to work as a doctor in the family camp; working as a nurse with her mother; the family camp liquidation in March 1944 (only medical staff was spared); transfer to a women's camp with her mother; assistance from an Austrian doctor; providing bread and water ...

  2. Zuzana M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zuzana M., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovkia in 1929, the younger of two children. She recalls not knowing she was Jewish; her father's suicide in 1931; celebrating Christian holidays; her mother having them convert to Catholicism; attending a Catholic school; having to move to Nové Mesto nad Váhom due to anti-Jewish restrictions; relatives in Hungary arranging to have them smuggled there in spring 1942; being caught; her brother's deportation to Žilina (she never saw him again); returning to Bratislava with her mother; living apart for safety; her mother's...

  3. Zvi A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi A., who was born in Beodra, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Novo Miloševo, Serbia), in 1913, one of four children. He recounts his family's poverty and Hasidism; attending school in Kikinda, and Veliki Beckerek (Zrenjanin); antisemitic harassment; moving to Belgrade; studying under Rabbi Mortiz Levi and others at a Jewish seminary in Sarajevo; moving to Vienna; the Anschluss; relocating to Budapest; ordination after completing his studies in 1940; his rabbinical position in Veliki Beckerek; military draft; serving in Skopje and Štip; German invasion in Apri...

  4. Zvi Amiram collection

    Contains photographs and other materials documenting the experiences of the Donner family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Zvi and Ester Steinkeller Weinstadt family collection

    The collection consists of a self-portrait and photographs relating to the experiences of Zvi Weinstadt and his family from Łódź, Poland before the war, and after the war in Stuttgart displaced persons camp, a British internment camp in Cyprus, and in Israel, and of Ester Steinkeller (later Weinstadt) and her family from Katowice, Poland, before the war, and after the war in Austria, Italy, and Israel.

  6. Zvi Barlev photograph collection

    Collection of photographs of the Bleicher family in Krakow; Frania Feuer Baral, who saved six children, including the donor's sister, by taking them from Krakow to Hungary and Romania; and the Hershkovits family in Rimovska Sobota, Czechoslovakia before and during the war, after the war in Italy, and later in Israel.

  7. Zvi Brick collection

    Contains fifteen letters sent to survivor Zvi Brick, the former director of the Jewish Agency office in Kovno, while he stayed in a displaced persons camp in Italy. Addressed from New York, Munich, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, dated 1946-1947, in Yiddish, Hebrew and some English. The letters were sent mainly from official entities and they record the state of the displaced, the difficulties of immigration to Palestine, monetary matters, and more. Includes seven letters from the general secretary of the Jewish National Workers Alliance, Louis Siegal, typewritten on official stationery and signed ...

  8. Zvi Griliches photograph collection

    The collection consists of thirty photographs relating to Zvi Griliches' childhood in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania and after World War II in the DP camp in Feldafing, Germany, and Israel.

  9. Zvi K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi K., who was born in 1929 in a small town between Krako?w and Kielce, Poland. He describes attending the cheder; the German occupation; the influx of Jews into his town as the cities became ghettoized; the gradual imposition of restrictions on the freedom of Jews; the sudden siege of the town in 1942; and the mass killings which took place while Mr. K. hid in the fields, hating himself for being a Jew. Mr. K. also speaks of being sent, with his family, to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Werk C; and daily and cultural life there, where he escaped death, due in part to his moth...

  10. Zvi Klinger papers

    Consists of 74 letters (some fragmented) exchanged by Zvi Klinger and other members of his family between Austria and Palestine from 1938 to 1940. The letters contain information relating to Zvi Klinger's illegal immigration to Israel and the fate of Klinger family members who remained in Austria during the Holocaust.

  11. Zvi N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi N., who was born in 1924, and raised in Tyszowce, Poland, one of two children. He recounts his father's death when he was two; moving to his Hasidic grandfather's farm; attending cheder and a Polish school; German invasion; brief Soviet occupation; the German return; moving to Komarów; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; a German cutting off his grandfather's beard; forced labor; escaping with his sister and others to the forest; separation from the group (his sister remained); assistance from a Polish friend; locating a group of Jews, including his mother a...

  12. Zvi O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi O., who was born in Burdujeni, Romania in 1933. He recalls expulsion from school in 1940; attending a Jewish school in Dorohoi; deportation with his family in October 1941; a few days in a synagogue in Mogilev; traveling to Luchinets; spending the winter in barracks; his brother's death during a typhus epidemic; his father's attempted suicide and eventual death; moving to Tropovo; pervasive hunger; antisemitic harassment by local children; contracting typhus in summer 1942; repatriation in early 1944; returning to Dorohoi; liberation by Soviet troops; moving to Bu...

  13. Zvi Ostrowsky collection

    Testimony, 107 pages plus appendix, typescript. Consists of an English translation and typescript of the diaries of the donor's father, Shmuel Ostrowsky, who wrote down his account of being an eyewitness to the German occupation of his hometown of Slonim, Poland. Contains photographs of Shmuel Ostrowsky's grave.

  14. Zvi Rosenwein collection

    The Zvi Rosenwein collection consists of documents, postcards, and photographs relating to Zvi (Zwi, Cvi) Rosenwein's internment in Tittmoning civilian internment camp and to his work in the Liebenau displaced persons camp in Laufen, Germany. The collection includes original postcards and letters, mainly circa 1943-1945 from friends, relatives, and associates in Switzerland, Budapest, the Łódź ghetto, Palestine, and other locations. Includes a series of original correspondence, much of it using coded language, with Nathan Schwalb in Switzerland and Josef Kraus in Budapest. Also includes an ...

  15. Zvi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1915, a twin, and one of four children. He recounts his childhood in Mukacheve; enlisting in the Czech army; attending officer training school in Michalovce; returning home; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with his twin sister and mother; identifying himself and sister as twins upon arrival; supervising the twins and dwarfs selected for Josef Mengele's specious medical experiments (he was called Twins Father); saving some from selection for death at risk of his own life; liber...

  16. Zvi S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi S., who was born in Komaro?w, Poland in 1931 one of nine children. He recalls German invasion; the murder of a friend; the outpouring of mourning at the funeral which still haunts him; killings whenever Germans entered town; his family hiding; ghettoization; digging a bunker under their room; hiding when Germans came; being attacked by a German dog; hiding with his family during the final liquidation; escaping one at a time; meeting one brother, one sister, and his father in the woods (the rest of the family was killed); hiding in a village; receiving food from Po...

  17. Zvi T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi T., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1924, one of six children in a Hasidic family. He recounts attending cheder; antisemitic harassment; attending a Mizrachi school in Sosnowiec and Zionist summer camps in Skawa; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; German invasion; moving with his mother and two sisters to his brother's home in Radom (he never saw his father or older sister again); continuing his Zionist activities; his brother fleeing east; living with an uncle; ghettoization; working as a gardener and tutor; slave labor in a leather factory; a publ...

  18. Zvi Terlo papers

    Collection consists of selected papers of Zvi Terlo (1932-2010), who served on the prosecution team at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961-1962. Includes correspondence, printed trial testimony, pamphlets, and photographs, mostly relating to particular phases of the trial, but also including papers from Shabtai Rosen, legal advisor for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from Foreign Minister Golda Meir. Most of the material relates to arguments about the legality of trying Eichmann in an Israeli court rather than an international court, as well as the legality of his ...

  19. Zvi Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi Z., the youngest of ten children, who was raised in Kozin, Poland (presently Ukraine). He recalls moving to Dubno; marriage; Soviet occupation in 1939; a son's birth in 1930 and a daughter's in 1940; working for the Soviets in Shegyni, Dubno, and Nemilov; German invasion in 1941; capture by Germans; falling into the pit during a mass shooting of Jews; climbing out at night through heaps of bodies and the wounded; returning to his home in Dubno; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups for mass killings; his son's murder; working in Kovel? processing Soviets being se...

  20. Zvi Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi Z., who was born in a village in Czechoslovakia in 1928, the fourth of eight children. He recalls everyone was Orthodox; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment; Hungarian occupation in 1938; the draft of two older brothers into slave labor battalions (he never saw them again); ghettoization in Vynohradiv in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; separation with his father and brother from his mother and younger siblings (he never saw them again); transfer with his father and brother to Warsaw; slave labor clearing the former ghetto; trading salvaged v...