Shiela Z. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Shiela Z., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1921. She describes German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish measures; hiding her brother and father after learning about the mass killings at Ponary; forced labor in a brick factory; hiding during round-ups; an unsuccessful attempted escape from the ghetto; hiding with her parents and brother in the sewers during the ghetto's liquidation; receiving assistance and food from a religious Pole; her father's death from illness; liberation by Soviet troops in July 1944; traveling with her mother and brother to Poland in 1946; living in Bad Salzschlirf, then Lechfeld, displaced persons camps; marriage in 1947; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. Mrs. Z. discusses sharing these experiences with her children and shows photographs and documents.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (3/4" u-matic)
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.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- Z., Shiela, -- 1921-
Subjects
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Hiding.
- Refugee camps.
- Family.
- Forced labor.
- Paneriai Massacres, Paneriai, Lithuania, 1941-1944.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Jews -- Lithuania -- Vilnius.
- Jewish ghettos.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- Mass killings.
Places
- Lechfeld (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Panariai (Lithuania)
- Vilna ghetto.
- Vilna (Poland)
- Bad Salzschlirf (Germany)
- Poland.
- Vilnius (Lithuania)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat