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• Author/Creator:Z., Nachman, 1918-
  
• Title:Nachman Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-3646) [videorecording], September 9, 1994.
  
• Published/Created:Tel Aviv, Israel : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1994.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (2 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.3646)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Related publications: Pamiętnik z getta łodzkiego / Jakub Poznański. [Wyd. 1. Łodź] - - Wydawn. Łódzkie, c1960.
  Associated material: Zonabend, Nachman. Interview 31051. Visual History Archive, USC Shoah Foundation. Access at https://vha.usc.edu.
  Associated material: Nachman Zonabend Collection: 1939-1944, RG 241 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011.
  This testimony is in Polish.
  2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Nachman Z., who was born in Łęczyca, Poland in 1918, one of eight children. He recalls attending cheder; his brothers moving to Łódź; joining them with the rest of his family in 1933; joining Betar; attending their summer camp; working with his brothers in Ruda Pabianicka; German invasion in 1939; fleeing with his brothers as far as Pszczonów; hiding there briefly, then returning to Łódź; entrusting some of their valuables with two non-Jews; forced labor for a day in Kochanówka; a German warning him of a round-up; hiding with a friend; ghettoization in May 1940; living with seventeen others (his brothers and their spouses) in a small apartment with no indoor plumbing (his parents had joined his sisters in Warsaw and none survived); working in the post office and a sausage factory; a meeting with Ḥayim Rumkowski, head of the Judenrat; hiding during round-ups; receiving photographs from his friend Mendel Grossman and hiding them; arranging for Grossman to photograph the child of Aron Jakubowicz, a Judenrat official; being selected with a large group to clean up the ghetto after the final deportation in summer 1944; building a bunker and hiding with five others; liberation by Soviet troops in January 1945; retrieving photographs and papers documenting the ghetto; testifying at the trial of Hans Biebow (the German head of the Łódź ghetto) trial; receiving his family's valuables back from one friend, but not the other; and conveying documents and photographs to the newly formed Jewish Commission on which he worked. Mr. Z. discusses episodes of resistance and punishments; those who judge Rumkowski and the Judenrats; and perspectives and errors of specific historians.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Nachman Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3646). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:Z., Nachman, 1918-
  Grossman, Mendel.
  Biebow, Hans, 1902-1947.
  Jakubowicz, Aron.
  Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim.
  Betar.
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Men.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Forced labor.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Jews--Poland--Łódź.
  Jewish councils.
  War crime trials--Poland.
  Poland.
  Łęczyca (Łęczyca, Poland)
  Łódź (Poland)
  Ruda Pabianicka (Poland)
  Pszczonów (Poland)
  Kochanówka (Poland)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Aid by non-Jews.
  Hiding.
  Bunkers.
  Postwar experiences.
  Łódź ghetto.
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)