Itka Z. Holocaust testimony

Identifier: HVT 1984
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of Itka Z., who was born in Ciechano?w, Poland in 1926. She recalls antisemitic harassment; German invasion on September 1, 1939; anti-Jewish measures; Germans beating her mother; transfer with her family to the Nowe Miasto ghetto in 1941; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her family (she never saw them again); meaningless slave labor; shock at learning her family had been gassed; assistance from a friend from home; vowing to remain together; public hangings; a death march and train transport to Ravensbru?ck in January 1945; transfer to Malchow in February; slave labor; liberation; transfer by the Swedish Red Cross, via Denmark, to Lund, Sweden in April; hospitalization in Doverstorp; living with her friend in Bora?s; and their double marriage to survivors in July 1946. Ms. Z. notes knowing Roza Robota, who aided the Sonderkommado uprising, from Ciechano?w. She reads poetry she has written about the Holocaust.

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.

Rules and Conventions

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Process Info

compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

People

Z., Itka, -- 1926-
Robota, Roza, -- 1921-1945.

Corporate Bodies

Svenska röda korset.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Malchow (Concentration camp)

Subjects

Mutual aid.
Postwar experiences.
Child survivors.
Antisemitism -- Prewar.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
Death marches.
Forced labor.
Friendship.
Jews -- Poland -- Nowe Miasto (Województwo Mazowieckie)
Concentration camps -- Psychological aspects.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poetry.
Jewish ghettos.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.
Jewish children in the Holocaust.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Women.
Video tapes.
Holocaust survivors.

Places

Poland.
Ciechanów (Poland)
Denmark.
Lund (Sweden)
Doverstorp (Sweden)
Borås (Sweden)
Nowe Miasto ghetto.

Genre

Oral histories. -- aat

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