Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Zelda G., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1924. She recalls involvement in a Zionist organization; the outbreak of war; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; efforts to organize an underground; moving to her sister's home with her mother when the second ghetto was formed; the Judenrat and Zionist organization's efforts to protect people; joining her relatives in the first ghetto when the other was liquidated; hiding during the round-ups in January 1943 (she was separated from her family and never saw them again); transport to Treblinka; transfer with 100 women to Lublin via Majdanek; deportation of the children; a German doctor administering experimental drugs when she was ill; transfer to an ammunition factory in Bliżyn; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; the destruction of the crematoria; and liberation by British troops from Bergen-Belsen. Mrs. G. recounts traveling to Munich to join her cousin; marriage to him; living in a displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in September 1946.
- Published
- Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Holocaust Documentation Archives, 1983
- Interview Date
- March 6, 1983.
- Locale
- Poland
Hrodna (Belarus)
Munich (Germany)
Belarus
Hrodna - Cite As
- Zelda G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-448). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 10 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Soviet occupation.
Mutual aid.
Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Zionist organizations.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Jewish ghettos. Forced labor. Human experimentation in medicine. Poland. Hrodna (Belarus) Munich (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) Jews--Belarus--Hrodna. Passive resistance. Jewish councils. G., Zelda,--1924- Treblinka (Concentration camp) Blizyn (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1100272
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-30 11:44:00
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