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980731s1994 ctu pol d
a| CtY
b| eng
c| CtY
e| appm
a| Nachman Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3646)
h| [videorecording],
f| September 9, 1994.
a| Tel Aviv, Israel :
b| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
c| 1994.
a| 1 videorecording (2 hr., 44 min.) :
b| col.
a| Videotape testimony of Nachman Z., who was born in Łęczyca, Poland in 1918, one of eight children. He recalls attending cheder; his brothers moving to Łódź; joining them with the rest of his family in 1933; joining Betar; attending their summer camp; working with his brothers in Ruda Pabianicka; German invasion in 1939; fleeing with his brothers as far as Pszczonów; hiding there briefly, then returning to Łódź; entrusting some of their valuables with two non-Jews; forced labor for a day in Kochanówka; a German warning him of a round-up; hiding with a friend; ghettoization in May 1940; living with seventeen others (his brothers and their spouses) in a small apartment with no indoor plumbing (his parents had joined his sisters in Warsaw and none survived); working in the post office and a sausage factory; a meeting with Ḥayim Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat; hiding during round-ups; receiving photographs from his friend Mendel Grossman and hiding them; arranging for Grossman to photograph the child of Aron Jakubowicz, a Judenrat official; being selected with a large group to clean up the ghetto after the final deportation in summer 1944; building a bunker and hiding with five others; liberation by Soviet troops in January 1945; retrieving photographs and papers documenting the ghetto; testifying at the trial of Hans Biebow (the German head of the Łódź ghetto) trial; receiving his family's valuables back from one friend, but not the other; and conveying documents and photographs to the newly formed Jewish Commission on which he worked. Mr. Z. discusses episodes of resistance and punishments; those who judge Rumkowski and the Judenrats; and perspectives and errors of specific historians.
a| This testimony is in Polish.
a| Related publications: Pamiętnik z getta łodzkiego / Jakub Poznański. [Wyd. 1. Łodź] - - Wydawn. Łódzkie, c1960.
d| Associated material: Nachman Zonabend Collection: 1939-1944, RG 241
a| YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011.
a| Nachman Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3646). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
e| 2 copies:
b| 3/4 in. dub;
b| and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
a| Grossman, Mendel.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95010605
a| Biebow, Hans,
d| 1902-1947.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003110468
a| Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83154830
a| Betar.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81012060
a| Holocaust survivors.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527
a| Video tapes.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214
a| Men.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083510
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| Forced labor.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453
a| Jewish ghettos.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007077
a| Jews
z| Poland
z| Łódź.
a| Jewish councils.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070271
a| War crime trials
z| Poland.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145166
a| Poland.
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071
a| Łęczyca (Łęczyca, Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83035659
a| Łódź (Poland)
0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80093570
a| Ruda Pabianicka (Poland)
a| Oral histories (document genres)
2| aat
0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595
a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies,
b| Yale University Library,
e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.
y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3646)
u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/4746q1sj6h
y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/