Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Zev H., who was born in Łódź, Poland, in 1924. In this vivid and detailed testimony, Mr. H. recalls his family's refusal to flee east with retreating Polish troops in 1939; moving to Kielce to escape restrictions in Łódź; sexual molestation by volksdeutsche; forced labor in a quarry; brutal conditions; his mother, sister, and grandmother disappearing in the summer 1942 liquidation; digging mass graves; and an SS man killing an infant, which continues to haunt him. He describes incarceration in a factory; resistance in the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; physical and psychological trauma in Birkenau; transport to Jaworzno to mine coal; the camp commandant's rebuke of a guard who beat his brother; his father's rescue by a Pole after the camp's evacuation; transfer to Blechhammer, where he was briefly liberated; a forced march to Gross Rosen; and liberation by Soviet forces at Leitmeritz. He relates postwar depression and near suicide; working for Beriḥah in Hungary and Austria; marriage in Salzburg; incarceration on Cyprus; arrival in Israel in 1947; his and his wife's emotional problems; and deciding to tell his children about his Holocaust experience.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1985
- Interview Date
- November 3, 1985.
- Locale
- Poland
Kielce
Łódź (Poland)
Kielce (Poland)
Palestine - Cite As
- Zev H. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-622). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocuast Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (1 hr., 59 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects (Local Yale)
- Aid by non-Jews.
Child survivors.
Postwar effects.
Postwar experiences.
Resistance.
Survivor-child relations. - Subjects
- Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Brothers. World War, 1939-1945--Children. Concentration camps--Psychological aspects. Fathers and sons. Forced labor. Jews--Poland--Kielce. Jewish ghettos. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Child sexual abuse. Poland. Łódź (Poland) Kielce (Poland) Palestine--Emigration and immigration. Oral histories (document genres) Death marches. H., Zev,--1924- Beriḥah (Organization) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Jaworzno (Concentration camp) Blechhammer E/3 (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Litoměřice (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/982247
- Record last modified:
- 2018-05-29 11:47:00
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