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Greta Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1402) interviewed by Sara Moss Herz and Helen Katz,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1402

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Greta Z., who was born in the Hague, Netherlands, in 1913. Mrs. Z. recalls the German occupation in 1940; imposition of anti-Semitic restrictions; round-up of her parents and brother in 1942 (they never returned); and deportation with her husband and two daughters to Westerbork in September 1943. She describes the family's transport to Bergen-Belsen in early 1944; daily routine in the camp, including her exemption from work because she was a woman with children; and visits by her husband (he was in a different barrack). She tells of the family's evacuation in April 1945; two weeks on a transport; liberation by the Russians at Shildau; taking over a private home there; repatriation via Leipzig to Holland in July 1945; and the family's emigration to the United States in 1953.
Author/Creator: Z., Greta, 1913-
Published: New Haven, Conn. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1990
Interview Date: November 12, 1990.
Locale: Hague (Netherlands)
Netherlands
Leipzig (Germany)
Cite As: Greta Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1402). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Herz, Sara Moss, interviewer.
Katz, Helen, interviewer.

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 (51 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Holocaust survivors. Video tapes. Women. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. Families. Husband and wife. Mothers and daughters. Hague (Netherlands) Netherlands. Leipzig (Germany) Concentration camp inmates--Family relationships. Oral histories (document genres) Z., Greta,--1913- Westerbork (Concentration camp) Bergen-Belsen (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/982264
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:25:00
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