Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Jakub Z., who was born in Nowy Sącz, Poland in 1928 and raised in Košice. He recounts Hungarian occupation in 1938; German invasion in spring 1944; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; ghettoization; deportation with his parents to Birkenau; separation from his mother upon arrival (he never saw her again); learning of selections and gas chambers, which he describes as a new reality; volunteering with his father for agricultural work; his father's hospitalization from a severe beating; his own hospitalization; his father visiting and bringing him extra food; being left when the camp was evacuated; liberation by Soviet troops; traveling to Kraków, then to Košice via Nowy Sącz and Prešov; attending school; and learning his father had been killed. Mr. Z. discusses stress in camp resulting from fear and starvation; having his tattooed number removed after the war; and this recording marking the first time he has told his entire story.
- Published
- Bratislava, Slovakia : Milan Šimečka Foundation, 1996
- Interview Date
- March 22, 1996.
- Locale
- Slovakia
Košice
Poland
Nowy Sącz (Poland)
Košice (Slovakia)
Kraków (Poland)
Prešov (Slovakia) - Cite As
- Jakub Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3924). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Notes
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This testimony is in Slovak.
Physical Details
- Language
- Slovak
- Copies
- 3 copies: 1/2 in. VHS master; Betacam SP submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 6 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Hungarian occupation.
Hospitals in concentration camps.
Postwar experiences.
Child survivors.
Aid by non-Jews. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish ghettos. Jews--Slovakia--Košice. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Jewish children in the Holocaust. Fathers and sons. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Forced labor. Poland. Nowy Sącz (Poland) Košice (Slovakia) Kraków (Poland) Prešov (Slovakia) Oral histories (document genres) Z., Jakub,--1928- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
-
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4470129
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:25:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4470129
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