Shiela Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1203) [videorecording] / interviewed by Pam Goodman and Kathy Strochlic, May 8, 1989.

New York, N.Y. : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1989.

1 videorecording (1 hr., 52 min.) : col.

English

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.

June 01, 2002

Shiela Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1203). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Shiela Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1203). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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