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Oral history interview with Jack Widawski

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.25 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0025

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    Oral history interview with Jack Widawski

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jack Widawski, born on November 28, 1926 in Łódź, Poland, describes his parents, Victor and Esther Widasky; being raised in a traditional Jewish home; his family owning a jewelry shop; life in the Łódź ghetto, where he worked in a “engineering factory” on a milling machine; his father working at a food distribution center; the curfew in 1942 and the subsequent selections and deportations; the Judenrat members and his mixed feelings about the Jewish police; his mother dying in the ghetto in 1943; being deported to Auschwitz with his three sisters and father; staying with his father and surviving the selections together; volunteering with his father as tradesmen; being sent to Germany, where they worked in a car factory; the bombing of the factory and moving to another factory in Sigmar-Schoenau (located in Chemnitz, Germany); being put on a death march in April 1945; escaping with a friend and being liberated near the Czech border; finding his father again; his father getting married; the family immigrating to Australia in 1949; and his belief that it is important to “stick to Jewishness.”
    Interviewee
    Jack Widawski
    Interviewer
    Pauline Rockman
    Date
    interview:  1996 January 17

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Widawski, Jack, 1926-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre conducted the interview on January 17, 1996, in Melbourne, Australia. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired the tape of the interview in July 1996.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:29:10
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