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Shiela Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1203) interviewed by Pam Goodman and Kathy Strochlic,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1203

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Shiela Z., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1921. She describes German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; hiding her brother and father after learning about the mass killings at Ponary; forced labor in a brick factory; hiding during round-ups; an unsuccessful attempted escape from the ghetto; hiding with her parents and brother in the sewers during the ghetto's liquidation; receiving assistance and food from a religious Pole; her father's death from illness; liberation by Soviet troops in July 1944; traveling with her mother and brother to Poland in 1946; living in Bad Salzschlirf, then Lechfeld, displaced persons camps; marriage in 1947; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. Z. discusses sharing these experiences with her children and shows photographs and documents.
Author/Creator: Z., Shiela, 1921-
Published: New York, N.Y. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1989
Interview Date: May 8, 1989.
Locale: Lithuania
Vilnius
Poland
Vilnius (Lithuania)
Bad Salzschlirf (Germany)
Panariai (Lithuania)
Cite As: Shiela Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1203). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Strochlic, Kathy, interviewer.

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 (1 hr., 52 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Hiding.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences.
Mass killings.
Survivor-child relations.
Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius. Brothers and sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944. Forced labor. Families. Poland. Vilnius (Lithuania) Oral histories (document genres) Bad Salzschlirf (Germany) Panariai (Lithuania) Refugee camps. Z., Shiela,--1921-

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: 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/1108264
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:31:00
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