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Oral history interview with Anna Oliwek

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1431 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1431

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    Oral history interview with Anna Oliwek

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Anna Oliwek describes her childhood in a town in Ukraine; her memories of the arrival of the Nazis in 1941; her experiences in a ghetto; her escape from the ghetto to another town; her acquisition of false papers; her experiences working as an interpreter for the mayor; her experiences in a German uniform and working for a police battalion; witnessing the killing of Jews; seeing the Christians who killed them; incidents where she saved the lives of Jews; her work with the police batallion as it moved towards Stalingrad; her arrest in 1944 for hiding a Christian boy; her expereinces working as an interpreter in a prisoner of war camp; the difficulties she experienced proving she was not a collaborator; and her life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Anna Oliwek
    Interviewer
    Jim Gleeson
    Date
    interview:  1983 April 13
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (90 min.).

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Oliwek, Anna.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Anna Oliwek on April 13, 1983. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in July 2007.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:50:20
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