Gilda Z. Holocaust testimony
Streszczenie
Videotape testimony of Gilda Z., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in approximately 1916. She recounts her mother's death when she was a baby; her father's remarriage; moving to Ciechocinek; joyous holiday celebrations; living briefly with relatives in Łódź; German invasion; fleeing with her brother to Soviet territory; seeing her future husband in Brest; exile to a work camp in the Archangelʹskai︠a︡ region of Siberia; imprisonment after a failed escape attempt; traveling with her brother to Tashkent; encountering her future husband again; forced labor; marriage; her son's birth in Kirgiziya; her brother's enlistment in the military; a letter from him saying no Jews were alive in Poland; her daughter's birth; traveling to Szczecin in 1945; smuggling themselves to Berlin; reunion with a sister and brother; living in Landsberg displaced persons camp; and emigration to the United States in 1951.
Rozmiary i nośnik
1 videocassette
Warunki decydujące o udostępnieniu
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.
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Informacje dotyczące procedury
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Osoby
- Z., Gilda, -- 1916?-
Ciała zbiorowe
- Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)
Tematy
- Women.
- Video tapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Jews -- Migrations.
- Refugees, Jewish.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Forced labor -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Conscript labor -- Soviet Union.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Soviet.
- Escapes.
- Husband and wife.
- Family.
- Refugee camps.
- Postwar experiences.
Miejsca
- Łódź (Poland)
- Ciechocinek (Poland)
- Siberia (Russia)
- Brest (Belarus)
- Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
- Archangelʹskai︠a︡ oblastʹ (R.S.F.S.R.)
- Szczecin (Poland)
- Kirgiziya (Kazakhstan)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Poland.
- Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat