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Alina Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2045) interviewed by Dana L. Kline and Susan Millen,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-2045

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    Summary
    Videotape testimony of Alina Z., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. She recalls attending an ORT school; German invasion; ghettoization; hunger and round-ups; marriage in 1941; jumping from a train to Treblinka with her husband, having been warned by a Pole of their destination; hiding with a farmer; returning to Warsaw because they feared exposure; living on the Aryan side; returning to her parents in the ghetto because of blackmail threats; hiding in bunkers during the uprising; and deportation to Majdanek in May 1943 and Birkenau several months later. Mrs. Z. recalls her realization that she was pregnant; establishing contact with her husband; sharing extra food he supplied with her friends; the midwife taking her son away immediately after birth (she never saw him again); a death march to Ravensbrück; transport to Neustadt-Glewe; and liberation. She describes returning to Warsaw; traveling to Katowice and Prague; reunion with her husband in Germany; her second son's birth in Marburg; reunion with her sister; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. Z. discusses her pervasive memories; fears of discussing them with her children, and recently feeling able to talk about her experiences; the importance of learning lessons from this period; and her fears that the lessons are lost when observing events in Yugoslavia.
    Author/Creator
    Z., Alina, 1922-1997.
    Published
    New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1993
    Interview Date
    April 21, 1993.
    Locale
    Poland
    Warsaw
    Marburg (Germany)
    Warsaw (Poland)
    Katowice (Poland)
    Prague (Czech Republic)
    Cite As
    Alina Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2045). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Kline, Dana L., interviewer.
    Millen, Susan, interviewer.
    Notes
    Related publication: No common place : the Holocaust testimony of Alina Bacall-Zwirn / Alina Bacall-Zwirn and Jared Stark. -- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1999.
    Additional written material available in repository.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Copies
    3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
    Physical Description
    1 videorecording (2 hr., 1 min.) : col

    Keywords & Subjects

    Subjects (Local Yale)
    Postwar experiences.
    Mutual aid.
    Survivor-child relations.
    Aid by non-Jews.
    Bunkers.
    Hiding.
    Postwar effects.
    Resistance.
    Childbirth in concentration camps.
    Marriage in Jewish ghettos.

    Administrative Notes

    Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
    http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1065453
    Record last modified:
    2018-06-04 13:28:00
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