- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Henry Z., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925. In an exceptionally detailed and descriptive testimony, Mr. Z. recalls his traditional family of seven children; anti-Semitic incidents; his father's death; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization; the roles of the Judenrat and Jewish police; smuggling food with assistance from his father's Polish business contacts; hiding to escape work details; family efforts to protect each other; his two brothers' disappearance in 1942; round-ups and transports; evacuation of the Jewish hospital, murder of the patients, and assisting in their burial; being forced to desecrate Torahs; learning of Treblinka; and finding out a sister went on a transport rather than give up her baby. He describes forced labor; a failed escape; working for the S.S. in Szwarlikowska and Szkolna; a forced march to Tomaszów Mazowiecki; deportation to Auschwitz; transfers to Birkenau, Vaihingen, Unterriexingen, and Kochendorf; a death march to Dachau; transport to the Tyrol in April 1945; escape with eight others; liberation by American troops; working for the United States Army; reunion with his two sisters; and emigration to Canada in 1948. Mr. Z. tells of testifying at a war crimes trial in 1972 in Hamburg and family visits to Poland.
- Author/Creator
- Z., Henry, 1925-
- Published
- New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1991
- Interview Date
- October 14, 1991.
- Locale
- Poland
Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie)
Radom (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
- Cite As
- Henry Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1647). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Rudof, Joanne Weiner, interviewer.
Ritvo, Lucille B.,
- Notes
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Related publication: It must never happen again / Henry Zagdanski. -- Toronto : Colombo & Company, c1998.
