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• Author/Creator:Z., Anna, 1926-
  
• Title:Anna Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3162) [videorecording] / interviewed by Michel Sobelman, July 9, 1994.
  
• Published/Created:Warsaw, Poland : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 hrs., 13 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.3162)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:This testimony is in Polish.
  2 copies: Betacam SP master; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Anna Z., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1926. She describes her assimilated family; frequent, cordial relations with non-Jews; European vacations; summering in Ustronie in 1939; German invasion; moving to Sródborów; her father, brother, and uncle fleeing east; moving to Warsaw in October; return to Częstochowa; German confiscation of their house; living with her uncle; attending Polish school; receiving religious instruction and converting to Catholicism in January 1940; moving to the open ghetto; her father's and brother's return; being sent to her Polish godmother outside of Częstochowa; and moving to a Polish family in Warsaw. Mrs. Z. recalls receiving false papers; caring for a Jewish child in hiding; being placed in a convent in Karczew; writing to her father to remove her (the nuns suspected she was Jewish); being hidden in a Warsaw rectory with other Jews; working in a candy factory; her father's visits; cessation of his visits; visiting her uncle; being caught on the street during the Warsaw uprising of 1944; receiving food from the Polish underground (A.K.); evacuation to Pruszkòw, then Breslau; volunteering for forced labor in Berlin; liberation by Soviet troops; returning to Częstochowa; learning her parents and brother had perished; and working in publishing.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Anna Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3162). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:Z., Anna, 1926-
  Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne. Armia Krajowa.
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  World War, 1939-1945--Children.
  Jews--Poland--Częstochowa.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Families.
  Catholic converts.
  Christian converts from Judaism.
  Convents.
  World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
  Poland.
  Częstochowa (Poland)
  Ustroń (Poland)
  Warsaw (Poland)
  Sródborów (Poland)
  Karczew (Poland)
  Warsaw (Poland)--History--Uprising, 1944.
  Pruszków (Województwo Mazowieckie, Poland)
  Wrocław (Poland)
  Berlin (Germany)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Child survivors.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  False papers.
  Postwar experiences.
  Częstochowa ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Sobelman, Michel, interviewer.