Zygmunt L. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Zygmunt L., who was born in Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland in 1922, the oldest of three children. He recounts attending public school; celebrating his bar mitzvah; secondary education in Bielsko-Bia?a; German invasion; fleeing with one sister and other relatives to Chrzano?w; his parents and other sister fleeing to L?viv; returning home; living with his uncle and sister; forced labor cleaning streets; ghettoization in Wadowice; receiving food from his father's non-Jewish associate; deportation to Gogolin, Gross Masselwitz, Annaberg, Brande, then Ludwigsdorf; slave labor building railroads and barracks; locals giving them food en route to work; transfer to Marksta?dt; a privileged position assisting German engineers; transfer to Fu?nfteichen a year later; a death march to Gross-Rosen in January 1945; train transport to Buchenwald; Allied bombardments en route; transfer to Flossenbu?rg; a death march to Dachau; liberation by United States troops; recovering in St. Ottilien; meeting his future wife; moving to Bindermichl; working for UNRRA and the Joint; serving as a witness at the Dachau trials; reunion with his parents (they had survived in Siberia); and emigration to the United States. Mr. L. discusses harmonious relations among prisoners in camps; continuing strong bonds with other survivors; and not sharing his experience with his children until they asked. He shows photographs and documents.
Extent and Medium
3 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- L., Zygmunt, -- 1922-
Corporate Bodies
- Ludwigsdorf (Concentration camp)
- Annaberg (Concentration camp)
- Gross Masselwitz (Concentration camp)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Markstädt (Concentration camp)
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Men.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Bar mitzvah.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Video tapes.
- Survivor-child relations.
- Postwar experiences.
- War crime trials -- Germany.
- Refugee camps.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- Dachau trial, Dachau, Germany, 1946.
- Jews -- Poland -- Wadowice.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Death marches.
- Concentration camps -- Sociological aspects.
Places
- Bielsko-Biała (Poland)
- Czechowice-Dziedzice (Poland)
- Wadowice ghetto.
- Chrzanów (Poland)
- Poland.
- St. Ottilien Hospital (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Fünfteichen (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Brande (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Gogolin (Poland : Concentration camp)
- Bindermichl (Austria : Refugee camp)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat