LEADER 05156cpd a2200733 a 4500001 4283921 005 20180529114659.0 008 980731s1988 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702232809 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV00-A116 035 4283921 035 HVT-1475 035 |9FLV7993YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702154252 090 |bHVT-1475 100 1 Z., Walter, |d1927- 245 10 Walter Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1475) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Paula Scolnik and Katy Beliveau, |fJuly 7, 1988. 260 Auburn, Me. : |bHolocaust Human Rights Center of Maine, |c1988. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 44 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Walter Z., who was born in Český Těšín, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls his father's local prominence; Polish annexation of the city in 1938; German invasion; his father's appointment as head of the Judenrat and working with Moshe Merin to smuggle children out of the area; deportation with his family in June 1941; removal from the train in Sosnowiec due to Merin's influence; his deportation to Sakrau a year later; a beating by Polish Jews for working too hard; transfer to Brande; a privileged position (about which he still feels guilty) due to his father's name; a whipping which he thought he would not survive; losing hope; transfer to Gräditz, Langenbielau, Klettendorf, Schmiedeberg, then Waldenberg; slave labor for I.G. Farben; becoming ill; help from a prisoner doctor; their guards leaving; liberation by Soviet troops; hearing his mother, sister, and cousin were in Langenbielau; their reunion; returning home; reunion with his father; learning most of their family had perished; smuggling himself to Paris; working in an OZE orphanage; and emigration to the United States to join an uncle in 1948. Mr. Z. discusses camp life; his education; conversion to Christianity; attending divinity school; and eventually returning to Judaism. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Walter Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1475). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 Z., Walter, |d1927- 600 10 Merin, Moshe, |d1906-1943. 610 20 Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50079382 610 20 Langenbielau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012161471 610 20 World Union OSE. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89106579 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |vPersonal narratives. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |vPersonal narratives, Jewish. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359 650 0 Jewish councils. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271 650 0 Concentration camps |xSociological aspects. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Christian converts from Judaism. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85031724 650 0 Identification (Religion) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064143 651 0 Czechoslovakia. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81032269 651 0 Český Těšín (Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82067474 651 0 Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no93033475 651 0 Paris (France) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79058874 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Child survivors. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar effects. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Sakrau (Poland : Concentration camp) 691 4 Brande (Poland : Concentration camp) 691 4 Gräditz (Poland : Concentration camp) 691 4 Klettendorf (Poland : Concentration camp) 691 4 Schmiedeberg (Poland : Concentration camp) 691 4 Waldenburg (Poland : Concentration camp) 693 24 OZE. 693 24 OSE. 693 24 I. G. Farben. 700 1 Scolnik, Paula, |einterviewer. 700 1 Beliveau, Katy, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4662915 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.1475) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/xw47p8ts2z 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/