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• Author/Creator:Z., Vera, 1925-
  
• Title:Vera Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2702) [videorecording] / interviewed by Gabriel Gorenstein and Jeff Atlas, December 6, 1992.
  
• Published/Created:New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1992.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (1 hr., 38 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.2702)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Vera Z., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1925. She recalls attending Lithuanian school; Lithuanian friends; Soviet occupation; Lithuanian violence against Jews prior to the arrival of German troops; a Lithuanian neighbor who saved them; her father's death in a mass shooting at the Seventh Fort; ghettoization; hiding her younger sister during round-ups; forced labor; escaping and staying with Lithuanian friends during mass killings; a Jewish policeman saving them from selection; hiding during deportations after warnings from the policeman; smuggling food for her family; a Lithuanian friend giving her her passport which saved her life many times; working on farms posing as a non-Jew; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Kaunas; learning the ghetto had been burned (her mother and sister had hidden there); assistance from Lithuanian friends; attending university in Moscow; and her career in Kaunas. Ms. Z. notes one son emigrated to the United States; visiting him; her other son and husband remaining in Kaunas; and difficulty deciding whether to emigrate. She discusses spitting on a Lithuanian after the war who had tried to expose her as a Jew; her pervasive memories; and the impossibility of conveying her experiences in a few hours. She shows photographs.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Vera Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2702). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:Z., Vera, 1925-
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews, Lithuanian--Lithuania--Kaunas.
  Forced labor.
  World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
  Revenge.
  Lithuania.
  Kaunas (Lithuania)
  Moscow (Russia)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Aid by non-Jews.
  Hiding.
  Mass killings.
  Mutual aid.
  False papers.
  Postwar experiences.
  Kovno ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Gorenstein, Gabriel, interviewer.
  Atlas, Jeff, interviewer.