- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Zlata G., who was born in Kostopol, Poland in 1921. She recalls the German invasion in September 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; fleeing with her brother upon the advice of retreating Soviet soldiers; finding her sister at the Soviet border; traveling to Voronezh where they had a cousin; two months later traveling east by freight train to escape the advancing German army; her sister and brother-in-law leaving the train in Kzyl-Orda due to their son's illness; living with her brother in Samarqand; extreme deprivation; a typhus epidemic; her brother-in-law finding them so they could provide additional food for his child; returning to Kzyl-Orda with help from a Polish friend; avoiding round-ups for forced labor; her brother's arrest; and his release by a Jewish officer. Mrs. G. tells of fleeing to Germany; marriage in a displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in 1948. She details many hardships and arduous conditions during the war.
- Author/Creator
- G., Zlata, 1921-
- Published
- Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990
- Interview Date
- March 4, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Kostopilʹ (Ukraine)
Voronezh (Russia)
Qyzylorda (Kazakhstan)
Samarqand (Uzbekistan)
- Cite As
- Zlata G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1492). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Lampner, Elanore E., interviewer.
Auerhan, Anita, interviewer.
