- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Aron Z., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1927, the youngest of seven children. He recalls his family's Hasidism; their butcher shops; antisemitic violence; visiting relatives in Radoszyce; summers in Koło; German invasion; his father's arrest; assistance from their German landlord to free him; being sent to relatives in Kielce and Mniów; walking home because he missed his mother; ghettoization; forced labor; occasionally driving Ḥayim Rumkowski; deportations including siblings, nephews, and nieces; deportation with his brother and parents to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from his parents (he never saw them again); trying to help his nephew (he died); his brother protecting him; their transfer to Czecowice; a death march and train transfer to Buchenwald; his brother carrying him; transfer to Rehmsdorf; his brother's deterioration; his death during evacuation to Theresienstadt; liberation by Soviet troops; hospitalization; joining the first children's transport to England; good care in Windermere, then in a religious hostel; hospitalization for tuberculosis; marriage; raising two children; and building his business. Mr. Z. discusses prewar life; pervasive fear during the war; believing Rumkowski did the best he could under the circumstances; songs and singing in the ghetto; cannibalism by Soviet prisoners; not sharing his experiences with his children until recently; continuing close bonds with friends from camp and Windermere; and pain recalling these events.
- Author/Creator
- Z., Aron, 1927-
- Published
- London, England : British Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1990
- Interview Date
- July 12, 1990.
- Locale
- Poland
Łódź
Łódź (Poland)
Radoszyce (Poland)
Koło (Województwo Wielkopolskie, Poland)
Mniów (Poland)
Kielce (Poland)
Windermere (England)
- Cite As
- Aron Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2362). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Perry, Elliot, interviewer.
