Irène Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2167) [videorecording] / interviewed by Josette Zarka and Claudine Drame, December 5, 1991.

Paris, France : Témoignages pour mémoire, 1991.

1 videorecording (3 hr., 21 min.) : col.

French

Videotape testimony of Irène Z., who recalls evacuation with her family from Paris to the Nièvre region after the outbreak of war; her father's death; living in a village for a year; returning to Paris; working with her mother in their boutique; her older brother's arrest and deportation (they never saw him again); hiding on July 16, 1942; arrest of her mother and brother; unsuccessfully trying to join them in the Vélodrome d'Hiver; learning they were sent to Pithiviers; arranging to hide her twelve year old brother; acquiring false papers in Lyon; joining the Resistance as a courier in Grenoble; arrest and interrogation by the Gestapo; futilely maintaining she was not Jewish; deportation to Drancy, then to Auschwitz; working in the kitchen; public hanging of a Belgian who was caught escaping; assisting in the delivery of a baby; the death march; train evacuation to a camp near Hamburg; liberation by Soviet troops; and returning to Paris. Mrs. Z. recalls marriage to a survivor; her loss of belief in God due to her experience; her son's perception of her experience; her sense of being Jewish (not religiously) and a humanist.

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.

June 01, 2002

Irene Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2167). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

Irene Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2167). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.

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