Lillian Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1438) [videorecording] / interviewed by Evelyn Umlas and Helene Levin, March 4 1990.

Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 1990.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 20 min.) : col.

English

Videotape testimony of Lillian Z., who was born in 1928 in Czechoslovakia. She recalls Hungarian occupation; conscription of men for forced labor; German invasion; her brother's illness and death; transfer with her extended family to the Munkács ghetto in April 1944; transport to Auschwitz in May; separation from her family; a pregnant woman whose baby was killed shortly after its birth; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; a German who helped the prisoners hide during an air raid; transfer in September to Soemmerda; a six-week death march in March 1945; disappearance of the guards; and liberation by United States troops. Mrs. Z. tells of returning home; living with an uncle; traveling to Germany; living in displaced persons camps; marriage in 1946; and emigration to the United States in 1949. She relates incidents from her late husband's experiences as a partisan and reflects upon her emotional numbness in the concentration camps.

June 01, 2002

Lillian Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1438). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Lillian Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1438). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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