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• Author/Creator:Z., Walter, 1927-
  
• Title:Walter Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1475) [videorecording] / interviewed by Paula Scolnik and Katy Beliveau, July 7, 1988.
  
• Published/Created:Auburn, Me. : Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine, 1988.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 44 min.) : col.
  

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  • Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
    Staff Request for Use in Manuscripts and Archives
    
    
  • Call Number: MS 1322
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  •   Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.1475)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Ziffer, Walter. Interview 34886. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Walter Z., who was born in Český Těšín, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls his father's local prominence; Polish annexation of the city in 1938; German invasion; his father's appointment as head of the Judenrat and working with Moshe Merin to smuggle children out of the area; deportation with his family in June 1941; removal from the train in Sosnowiec due to Merin's influence; his deportation to Sakrau a year later; a beating by Polish Jews for working too hard; transfer to Brande; a privileged position (about which he still feels guilty) due to his father's name; a whipping which he thought he would not survive; losing hope; transfer to Gräditz, Langenbielau, Klettendorf, Schmiedeberg, then Waldenberg; slave labor for I.G. Farben; becoming ill; help from a prisoner doctor; their guards leaving; liberation by Soviet troops; hearing his mother, sister, and cousin were in Langenbielau; their reunion; returning home; reunion with his father; learning most of their family had perished; smuggling himself to Paris; working in an OZE orphanage; and emigration to the United States to join an uncle in 1948. Mr. Z. discusses camp life; his education; conversion to Christianity; attending divinity school; and eventually returning to Judaism.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Walter Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1475). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:Z., Walter, 1927-
  Merin, Moshe, 1906-1943.
  Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft.
  Langenbielau (Concentration camp)
  World Union OSE.
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Jewish councils.
  Concentration camps--Sociological aspects.
  Forced labor.
  Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
  Christian converts from Judaism.
  Identification (Religion)
  Czechoslovakia.
  Český Těšín (Czech Republic)
  Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
  Paris (France)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Mutual aid.
  Postwar effects.
  Postwar experiences.
  Sakrau (Poland : Concentration camp)
  Brande (Poland : Concentration camp)
  Gräditz (Poland : Concentration camp)
  Klettendorf (Poland : Concentration camp)
  Schmiedeberg (Poland : Concentration camp)
  Waldenburg (Poland : Concentration camp)
  OZE.
  OSE.
  I. G. Farben.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Scolnik, Paula, interviewer.
  Beliveau, Katy, interviewer.