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Oral history interview with Pinchas Ziontz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.181 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0181

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    Oral history interview with Pinchas Ziontz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Pinchas Ziontz, born in September 1930, in Baranow, Poland, discusses his early family life; the outbreak of war in September 1939; the establishment of the Judenrat and the ghetto; escaping from the ghetto and hiding on a farm for a week southwest of Baranow, Poland; leaving the farm and hiding in the forest until June 1942; travel to Kamionka, Poland, where he and his immediate family hid in an aunt's attic; escaping to Konskowola, Poland; returning to Baranow after being away for five months; hiding in the forest in October 1942, next to Pogonow, Poland, until the end of the war; his father managing to buy a hiding place in the straw storage belonging to a Polish farmer where they remained for two months; building bunkers in the forest; contact with the PPR (Polish workers party) partisans; life in the forest; being shot in the leg in the forest; liberation by the Russians; traveling to Lublin, Poland, in September 1944; and his post-war reunion with an aunt.
    Interviewee
    Pinchas Ziontz
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

    Physical Details

    Language
    Hebrew
    Extent
    15 videocassettes (U-Matic) : sound, color ; 3/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Ziontz, Pinchas, 1930-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Nathan Beyrak conducted the interview with Pinchas Ziontz in Israel for the Israel Documentation Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Dept. in February 1995.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:15:24
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