Zvi Gill was born in Zduńska Wola, Poland. With the outbreak of World War II Zvi and his family were moved to the ghetto in Zduńska Wola, where they lived until the ghetto was liquidated. Zvi and his mother were deported to the Lodz ghetto. With the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto, Zvi was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and from there he was sent to labor camps in Germany.
Upon the evacuation of the camps, Zvi managed to escape and live in a German village under false identity.
After liberation he immigrated to pre-state Israel. He became a writer, a senior journalist with the Israel Broadcasting Authority, and one of the founders of Israeli television. Zvi was among the drafters of the Survivors' Decleration, which brings together the messages of Holocaust survivors for future generations.
Zvi and his late wife Yehudit had three daughters.
