LEADER 08490cpd a2200925 a 4500001 4297455 005 20180604133225.0 008 980731s1991 ctu heb d 035 4297455 035 HVT-3347 035 |9FLX1747YL 040 CtY |beng |cCtY |eappm 079 (OCoLC)1005121546 090 |bHVT-3347 100 1 Z., Arie, |d1923- 245 10 Arie Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3347) |h[videorecording] / |cinterviewed by Anita Tarsi, |fMay 24 and 29, June 4, 11, and 18, and July 7, 1991. 260 Tel Aviv, Israel : |bFortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |c1991. 300 6 videorecordings (14 hr., 54 min.) : |bcol. 520 Videotape testimony of Arie Z., who was born in Pruz︠h︡any, Poland (presently Belarus), in 1923, the elder of two children. He recounts his father managing the estate of a Russian princess; attending Hebrew schools; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; increasing antisemtism, including his father being fired in 1938; his finding another job on a distant estate near the Bialowieza Forest; his visits; completing gymnasium in 1939; German invasion on September 1; joining his father with his mother and sister; Soviet occupation; returning home; his father joining them; completing final exams for the Soviet school in June 1941; German invasion; ghettoization; his father's employment by the Judenrat; a former Polish neighbor, a radio expert, employing him in his workshop outside the ghetto; smuggling food; taking bullets from visiting German soldiers; transfering them to those who escaped to the partisans; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau in January 1943; separation from his mother and sister; slave labor building rail lines; his father's hospitalization (he never saw him again); transfer to Zgoda; slave labor in a munitions factory with Soviet prisoners of war; joining a group in winter 1944 digging an escape tunnel (he was the only Jew); escaping two months later; hiding by himself; posing as a non-Jewish escapee to receive assistance from Poles; and capture by a Volksdeutsche five weeks later. 520 8 Mr. Z. recounts incarceration in Bielsko-Biała; torture during interrogations; transfer to Auschwitz after a week; claiming he stumbled upon the tunnel and denying knowledge of the plan; transfer to Monowitz; encountering his uncle; assisting him; public hangings; claiming not to know a fellow escapee who had been recaptured; transfer to Salza; meeting Josef Rosensaft (later president of DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen); slave labor in an airplane factory; transfer to Buchenwald; evacuation by train; abandonment by the Germans; liberation; hospitalization by the Red Cross in Terezín; assistance from the Joint; moving to Landsberg, Feldafing, and Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camps, with assistance from the Jewish Brigade; helping found Noʻar ḥalutsi, a Zionist youth group; assistance from UNRRA; Beriḥah organizing their illegal emigration by ship to Palestine via Italy in spring 1947; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus; helping administer the camp; marriage; release to Israel in 1949; and the births of two children. Mr. Z. discusses focusing solely on surviving a day at a time in camps; thinking of a future again during the escape plans; and not sharing his story due to lack of Israeli understanding. He shows a letter and newspapers related to his work on Cyprus. 546 This testimony is in Hebrew. 524 Arie Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3347). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library. 562 |e2 copies: |b3/4 in. master; |band 1/2 in. VHS with time coding. 600 10 Z., Arie, |d1923- 600 10 Rosensaft, Josef, |d1911-1975. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86056702 610 20 World Hashomer Hatzair. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78023533 610 20 Auschwitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360 610 20 Birkenau (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007 610 20 Zgoda (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99027967 610 20 Monowitz (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00051472 610 20 Buchenwald (Concentration camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97036997 610 20 International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91029304 610 20 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79097409 610 20 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50079799 610 20 Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008053787 610 20 Noʻar ḥalutsi meʼuḥad be-Germanyah. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91017031 610 20 Beriḥah (Organization) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50073740 610 20 Feldafing (Displaced persons camp) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008053891 610 20 DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012131298 650 0 Holocaust survivors. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527 650 0 Video tapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214 650 0 Men. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510 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 |zBelarus |zPruz︠h︡any. 650 0 Forced labor. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453 650 0 Jewish councils. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148517 650 0 Fathers and sons. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047455 650 0 Concentration camps |xPsychological aspects. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590 650 0 Prisoners of war |zGermany. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107235 650 0 Prisoners of war |zSoviet Union. 650 0 Escapes. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85044783 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons, German. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148474 650 0 Concentration camp inmates |xFamily relationships. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xAtrocities. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148285 650 0 Refugee camps. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87007802 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |xPublic opinion. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105740 650 0 Public opinion |zIsrael. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110225 651 0 Poland. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071 651 0 Pruz︠h︡any (Belarus) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82071925 651 0 Bialowieza Forest (Poland and Belarus) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013563 651 0 Bielsko-Biała (Poland) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84007478 651 0 Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic) |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81038466 651 0 Palestine |xEmigration and immigration. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097165 651 0 Cyprus. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79055857 655 7 Oral histories (document genres) |2aat |0http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595 690 4 Antisemitism |yPrewar. 690 4 Soviet occupation. 690 4 Aid by non-Jews. 690 4 Mutual aid. 690 4 Postwar experiences. 691 4 Pruz︠h︡any ghetto. 691 4 Salza (Germany : Concentration camp) 700 1 Tarsi, Anita, |einterviewer. 852 Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, |bYale University Library, |eBox 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240. 902 |b4676914 903 |yDigital testimony (mssa.hvt.3347) |uhttps://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/k93125qj99 904 |yFor information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. |uhttps://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/