- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Mayer Z., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in 1912, one of five children in an impoverished family. He recalls working as a tailor from age eleven; living in Łódź; starting a business with his brother-in-law in Piotrków; increasing antisemitism; German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; escaping to the Soviet zone in December; encountering his wife in Brest; moving to Hantsavichy; arrest with his brother-in-law; imprisonment in Luninet︠s︡ and Pinsk; deportation to a Soviet concentration camp; forced labor for a year; transfer to Solikamsk after German invasion; release after a few weeks; traveling to Tashkent; the births of two children; enlisting in the Soviet military; returning to his family due to illness; traveling to Łódź after the war; living in Szczecin; learning no family survived; smuggling themselves to Berlin; living in Landsberg and Schlachtensee displaced persons camps; emigration to the United States in 1951; difficulties establishing himself; and gratitude for his present life (he has four children and seven grandchildren).
- Author/Creator
- Z., Mayer, 1912-
- Published
- Milwaukee, Wis. : Generation After of Milwaukee, 1992
- Interview Date
- December 3, 1992.
- Locale
- Soviet Union
Poland
Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
Łódź (Poland)
Brest (Belarus)
Hantsavichy (Belarus)
Luninets (Belarus)
Pinsk (Belarus)
Solikamsk (Russia)
Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
Szczecin (Poland)
Berlin (Germany)
- Cite As
- Mayer Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3031). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Chrustowski, Betty, interviewer.
Benchimol, Rita, interviewer.
- Notes
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Associated material: Gilda Z. Holocaust testimony [wife] (HVT-3030), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
