Zelda G. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Zelda G., who was born in Grodno, Poland (presently Hrodna, Belarus) in 1924. She recalls involvement in a Zionist organization; the outbreak of war; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; efforts to organize an underground; moving to her sister's home with her mother when the second ghetto was formed; the Judenrat and Zionist organization's efforts to protect people; joining her relatives in the first ghetto when the other was liquidated; hiding during the round-ups in January 1943 (she was separated from her family and never saw them again); transport to Treblinka; transfer with 100 women to Lublin via Majdanek; deportation of the children; a German doctor administering experimental drugs when she was ill; transfer to an ammunition factory in Bliz?yn; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; the destruction of the crematoria; and liberation by British troops from Bergen-Belsen. Mrs. G. recounts traveling to Munich to join her cousin; marriage to him; living in a displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in September 1946.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- G., Zelda, -- 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Treblinka (Concentration camp)
- BlizĚyn (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- Hiding.
- Mutual aid.
- Zionist organizations.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Passive resistance.
- Jews -- Belarus -- Hrodna.
- Soviet occupation.
- Jewish councils.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Forced labor.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Video tapes.
- Women.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust survivors.
Places
- Grodno (Poland)
- Munich (Germany)
- Lublin (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Grodno ghetto.
- Hrodna (Belarus)
- Poland.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat