Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Itka Z., who was born in Ciechanów, Poland in 1926. She recalls antisemitic harassment; German invasion on September 1, 1939; anti-Jewish measures; Germans beating her mother; transfer with her family to the Nowe Miasto ghetto in 1941; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family (she never saw them again); meaningless slave labor; shock at learning her family had been gassed; assistance from a friend from home; vowing to remain together; public hangings; a death march and train transport to Ravensbrück in January 1945; transfer to Malchow in February; slave labor; liberation; transfer by the Swedish Red Cross, via Denmark, to Lund, Sweden in April; hospitalization in Doverstorp; living with her friend in Borås; and their double marriage to survivors in July 1946. Ms. Z. notes knowing Roza Robota, who aided the Sonderkommado uprising, from Ciechanów. She reads poetry she has written about the Holocaust.
- Published
- Wilmington, Del. : Halina Wind Preston Holocaust Education Center, 1995
- Interview Date
- May 6, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Nowe Miasto (Województwo Mazowieckie)
Ciechanów (Poland)
Denmark
Lund (Sweden)
Doverstorp (Sweden)
Borås (Sweden) - Cite As
- Itka Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1984). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 4 copies: 3/4 in. dub; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 22 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Child survivors.
Antisemitism Prewar.
Mutual aid.
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--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poetry. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Poland--Nowe Miasto (Województwo Mazowieckie) Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Forced labor. Friendship. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Death marches. Poland. Ciechanów (Poland) Denmark. Lund (Sweden) Doverstorp (Sweden) Borås (Sweden) Oral histories (document genres) Z., Itka,--1926- Robota, Roza,--1921-1945. Svenska röda korset. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Malchow (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/4285858
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4285858
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