Sam Z. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0768
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Sam Z., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1918. He recalls having four sisters; injuries from antisemitic assaults; military induction in 1939; defending Warsaw; incarceration as a POW for about three months; returning home; fleeing to the Soviet zone to escape anti-Jewish regulations and violence; living in L?viv and Rivne; returning home to persuade his family to join him (they did not); returning to Rivne; German invasion; military draft; officer training; campaigns in Stalingrad and Moscow; transferring to W?adys?aw Ander's Polish army within the Soviet military; serving in Leningrad; eventually reaching Berlin; German surrender; shock at observing camp survivors in Warsaw; returning home; reunion with two sisters; working for Berih?ah smuggling survivors to Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Italy en route to Palestine; brief arrest; working with the Irgun; and emigration to Canada in 1948 to join his sister. Mr. Z. discusses postwar emotional problems and his sister's health problems resulting from a concentration camp beating.

Extent and Medium

3 videocassettes

Conditions Governing Access

This testimony is open with permission.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.

Related Units of Description

  • Associated material: Lola J. Holocaust testimony [sister] (HVT-766), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

  • compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

  • Z., Sam, -- 1918-
  • Anders, Władysław, -- 1892-1970.

Corporate Bodies

  • Irgun tsevaʻi leʻumi.
  • Beriḥah (Organization)

Subjects

  • Antisemitism -- Prewar.
  • Postwar effects.
  • Prisoners of war.
  • Soviet occupation.
  • Postwar experiences.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Polish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Soviet.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish.
  • Video tapes.
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • Men.

Places

  • Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine)
  • Lʹviv (Ukraine)
  • Częstochowa (Poland)
  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Poland.

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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