LEADER 04228cpd a2200601 a 4500001 4288671 005 20180530113305.0 008 980731s1992 ctu eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn702233473 035 (CStRLIN)CTYV00-A170 035 4288671 035 HVT-2702 035 |9FLW2846YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)702155024 090 |bHVT-2702 100 1 Z., Vera, |d1925- 245 10 Vera Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2702) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Gabriel Gorenstein and Jeff Atlas, |fDecember 6, 1992. 260 New York, N.Y. : |bA Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, |c1992. 300 1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Vera Z., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1925. She recalls attending Lithuanian school; Lithuanian friends; Soviet occupation; Lithuanian violence against Jews prior to the arrival of German troops; a Lithuanian neighbor who saved them; her father's death in a mass shooting at the Seventh Fort; ghettoization; hiding her younger sister during round-ups; forced labor; escaping and staying with Lithuanian friends during mass killings; a Jewish policeman saving them from selection; hiding during deportations after warnings from the policeman; smuggling food for her family; a Lithuanian friend giving her her passport which saved her life many times; working on farms posing as a non-Jew; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Kaunas; learning the ghetto had been burned (her mother and sister had hidden there); assistance from Lithuanian friends; attending university in Moscow; and her career in Kaunas. Ms. Z. notes one son emigrated to the United States; visiting him; her other son and husband remaining in Kaunas; and difficulty deciding whether to emigrate. She discusses spitting on a Lithuanian after the war who had tried to expose her as a Jew; her pervasive memories; and the impossibility of conveying her experiences in a few hours. She shows photographs. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. dub; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 524 Vera Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2702). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 600 10 Z., Vera, |d1925- 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Women. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274 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 Jewish ghettos. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077 650 0 Jews, Lithuanian |zLithuania |zKaunas. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Revenge. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420 651 0 Lithuania. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82209573 651 0 Kaunas (Lithuania) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81089100 651 0 Moscow (Russia) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076156 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Hiding. 690 4 Mass killings. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 False papers. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 690 4 Kovno ghetto. 700 1 Gorenstein, Gabriel, |einterviewer. 700 1 Atlas, Jeff, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4667776 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.2702) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/5m6251fp48 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/ 927 oclc 928 AC04082002