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• Author/Creator:Z., Jolly, 1926-2004.
  
• Title:Jolly Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-220) [videorecording] / interviewed by Laurel Vlock and Dori Laub, January 18, 1983.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven, Conn. : Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale, 1983.
  
• Physical Description:1 videorecording (42 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.0220)
    For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
    

   
• Notes:Associated material: Rosalie W. and Jolly Z. Holocaust testimony [with mother] (HVT-34), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  Associated material: Jolly Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-972), Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  3 copies: 3/4 in. master; 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
  
• Summary:Videotape testimony of Jolly Z., who was born in Uz︠h︡horod, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1926. She tells of leaving her hiding place in order to be with her parents; their transfer to the ghetto shortly thereafter; and their deportation, a few weeks later, to Auschwitz. She recalls their total ignorance upon arrival; aspects of daily life in Auschwitz; her and her mother's transfer to Hamburg for slave labor; and the mistreatment she suffered; the birth of a child;and a German killing the baby. She relates her transfer to Bergen-Belsen, where she was put to work digging mass graves; her sustaining relationship with her mother; the liberation; and her postwar intervention on behalf of a German woman and child who were attacked by former prisoners. Throughout her unusually eloquent testimony, Mrs. Z. stresses her belief in the possibility of moral choice regardless of one's circumstances; the potential for both good and evil within each individual; and her hope for the future.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Jolly Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-220). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
  
• Subjects:Z., Jolly, 1926-2004.
  Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
  Holocaust survivors.
  Video tapes.
  Women.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
  Mothers and daughters.
  Forced labor.
  Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Revenge.
  Jewish ghettos.
  Czechoslovakia.
  Uz︠h︡horod (Ukraine)
  Hamburg (Germany)
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Hiding.
  Aid by non-Jews.
  Childbirth in concentration camps.
  Postwar experiences.
  Ungvár ghetto.
  Hamburg (Germany : Concentration camp)
  
• Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
  
• Also listed under:Vlock, Laurel, interviewer.
  Laub, Dori, interviewer.