a| HVT-3810

a| 4383595

9| FMF8890YL

a| CtY b| eng c| CtY e| appm

a| (OCoLC)1005104332

b| HVT-3810

a| G., Ziuta, d| 1927-

a| Ziuta G. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3810) h| [videorecording], f| November 17, November 23, 1995 and February 23, 1996.

a| Tel Aviv, Israel : b| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, c| 1995 and 1996.

a| 3 videorecordings (5 hr., 9 min.) : b| col.

a| Videotape testimony of Ziuta G., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1927, the younger of two children. She recounts her family's affluence; her father's architectural business; attending a Polish school; speaking and reading German at home; vacationing in Zakopane; an Austrian cousin living with them after the Anschluss; increasing tension in 1939; her parents sending her brother to England; vacationing in Muszyna in the summer of 1939; returning home in late August when her father was drafted; his rejection and return; German invasion on September 1; her father fleeing with his three brothers and a brother-in-law; his return; her expulsion from school; Germans living in their house; forced labor clearing snow; a non-Jewish friend taking over her father's business; her father continuing to manage it, thus earning a living; ghettoization; leaving their valuables with Ruzia, their non-Jewish maid; Ruzia bringing them food; her father continuing to work in his former business; her assignment to a factory outside the ghetto; smuggling food back to the ghetto; she and her parents having false documents as Poles; her father's younger brother returning and living with them; deportations beginning in 1942; her mother's brother protecting her mother from deportation (he was in the Jewish police); her father's assignment to help build Płaszów; moving there with her parents in March 1943; continuing to work in the factory outside Płaszów; Ruzia bringing her food to smuggle, which they shared with others; her father being severely beaten several times; camp kommandant Amon Goeth killing many, but sparing her and her mother once; her father bringing his sister's two children to Płaszów (they had been with their non-Jewish nanny); and deportation of most of the prisoners in late 1944.

a| She recalls those left being tasked to destroy the buildings and disinter and burn the bodies to destroy evidence of what occurred there; a forced march to Auschwitz/Birkenau on January 14, 1945; separation from her father and the children (the children survived); speaking to her father through the fence, the last time she saw him; a death march with her mother, then transport on open trains to Bergen-Belsen; filth, starvation, and a typhus epidemic; caring for her mother as her condition deteriorated; volunteering for transfer; slave labor in a factory in Venusberg; assistance from friends from Płaszów; hospitalization for typhus; her mother joining her; a sixteen-day train transport to Mauthausen via Gusen; Czechs bringing food during a stop; her mother's death en route; losing her will to live; assistance from the women her mother had enlisted to care for her; a woman giving birth in her barrack; liberation by United States troops on May 5; returning to Ruzia's home in June; reunion with friends and a cousin; learning her father had been killed; living with her uncle and aunt; contact from her brother in February 1946; marriage to her former boyfriend; visiting her brother in Liverpool in November; returning to her husband in Kraków ten months later; their son's birth in 1948; futile efforts to emigrate until their 1957 emigration to Israel; her daughter's birth; and her husband's death in 1989. Ms. G. discusses testifying at Goeth's trial; details of camp experiences; the reversal of values and her pervasive fear in camps; the impact of total starvation; and she and her husband sharing their experiences with their children. She shows documents and photographs.

a| This testimony is in Polish.

a| Ziuta G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3810). 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| G., Ziuta, d| 1927-

a| Göth, Amon, d| 1908-1946. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001018206

a| Płaszów (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97030354

a| Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96112360

a| Birkenau (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96068007

a| Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065702

a| Venusberg (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008174332

a| Gusen (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no97029613

a| Mauthausen (Concentration camp) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96065604

a| Holocaust survivors. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061527

a| Video tapes. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143214

a| Women. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147274

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| World War, 1939-1945 x| Children. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148359

a| Jewish children in the Holocaust. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96005877

a| Forced labor. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85050453

a| Fathers and daughters. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047454

a| Mothers and daughters. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85087538

a| Families. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85047009

a| Concentration camps x| Psychological aspects. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85029590

a| War crime trials z| Poland. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145166

a| Death marches. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006384

a| Poland. 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79131071

a| Kraków (Poland) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79125145

a| Zakopane (Poland) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81003394

a| Muszyna (Poland) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92066095

a| Liverpool (England) 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80050950

a| Oral histories (document genres) 2| aat 0| http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595

a| Child survivors.

a| Antisemitism y| Prewar.

a| Aid by non-Jews.

a| Mutual aid.

a| Childbirth in concentration camps.

a| Postwar experiences.

a| False papers.

a| Survivor-child relations.

a| Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, b| Yale University Library, e| Box 208240, New Haven, CT 06520-8240.

b| 4766248

y| Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.3810) u| https://fortunoff.aviaryplatform.com/r/xp6tx35h9n

y| For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here. u| https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/archive/overview/