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980731s1992 ctu eng d
a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Vera Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2702)
h| [videorecording] /
c| interviewed by Gabriel Gorenstein and Jeff Atlas,
f| December 6, 1992.
a| New York, N.Y. :
b| A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage,
c| 1992.
a| 1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 min.) :
b| col.
a| 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.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Vera Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2702). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
a| Holocaust survivors.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Women.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274
a| Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
v| Personal narratives.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061518
a| World War, 1939-1945
v| Personal narratives, Jewish.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148465
a| Jewish ghettos.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
a| Jews, Lithuanian
z| Lithuania
z| Kaunas.
a| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| World War, 1939-1945
x| Atrocities.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285
a| Revenge.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85113420
a| Lithuania.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82209573
a| Kaunas (Lithuania)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81089100
a| Moscow (Russia)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79076156
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Gorenstein, Gabriel,
e| interviewer.
a| Atlas, Jeff,
e| interviewer.
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
b| Yale University Library,
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.2702)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/5m6251fp48
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/