Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Gilda Z., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in approximately 1916. She recounts her mother's death when she was a baby; her father's remarriage; moving to Ciechocinek; joyous holiday celebrations; living briefly with relatives in Łódź; German invasion; fleeing with her brother to Soviet territory; seeing her future husband in Brest; exile to a work camp in the Archangelʹskai︠a︡ region of Siberia; imprisonment after a failed escape attempt; traveling with her brother to Tashkent; encountering her future husband again; forced labor; marriage; her son's birth in Kirgiziya; her brother's enlistment in the military; a letter from him saying no Jews were alive in Poland; her daughter's birth; traveling to Szczecin in 1945; smuggling themselves to Berlin; reunion with a sister and brother; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in 1951.
- Published
- Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1992
- Interview Date
- December 29, 1992.
- Locale
- Soviet Union
Poland
Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
Ciechocinek (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Brest (Belarus)
Siberia (Russia)
Archangelʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (R.S.F.S.R.)
Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
Kirgiziya (Kazakhstan)
Szczecin (Poland)
Berlin (Germany) - Cite As
- Gilda Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3030). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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Associated material: Holocaust testimony Mayer Z. [husband] (HVT-3031), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Postwar experiences.
- Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jews--Migrations. Jewish refugees. Brothers and sisters. Forced labor--Soviet Union--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Soviet Union. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet. Escapes. Husband and wife. Families. Refugee camps. Poland. Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland) Ciechocinek (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Brest (Belarus) Siberia (Russia) Archangelʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (R.S.F.S.R.) Tashkent (Uzbekistan) Kirgiziya (Kazakhstan) Szczecin (Poland) Berlin (Germany) Oral histories (document genres) Z., Gilda,--1916?- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons 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/4290105
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4290105
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