Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Elisheva Z., who was born in 1931 to a Vishnitz Hasidic family in Sighet, Romania. She recalls Hungarian occupation; general disbelief of reports of annihilation of Jews from a man returning from Poland; German occupation; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau with her family in May 1944; prisoners informing them how to survive selection; encountering Gisella Perl, whom she knew in Sighet, and who often helped her in camp; separation from her mother (whom she never saw again); saving her shoes (she still has them); her sisters trading their food for medicine for her when she had typhus; disappearance of one friend whom she still mentions in memorial prayers; male prisoners tossing food to them; and praying every morning for bread. Mrs. Z. recounts transfer with her sisters to Torgau; the birth of a baby in their barrack; writing poems and keeping a diary; a German worker giving her food; liberation by United States troops; and living in a hotel in Leipzig. She emphasizes the importance of her sisters and friends to her survival.
- Published
- Ramat Aviv, Israel : Beth Hatefutsoth, Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1984
- Interview Date
- May 4, 1984.
- Locale
- Romania
Sighet
Sighet (Romania)
Leipzig (Germany) - Cite As
- Elisheva Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1061). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Hebrew.
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hungarian occupation.
Child survivors.
Mutual aid.
Childbirth in concentration camps.
Aid by non-Jews.
Postwar experiences. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Concentration camp inmates--Religious life. Forced labor. Friendship. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Romania--Sighet. Sisters. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Romania. Sighet (Romania) Leipzig (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Z., Elisheva,--1931- Perl, Gisella. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1108265
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:46:00
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