Overview
- Interview Summary
- Sam Wolf, born in 1909 in Krakow, Poland, describes his experiences fighting in the Polish Army in 1939; crossing the border into Russia after the German invasion of Poland; his arrest and sentence to Siberia, where he worked for 18 months; how he spent most of the war in Kazakhstan before returning to Poland to discover that the stories he had heard about the Holocaust were true; and the loss of several of his siblings in the Holocaust.
- Interviewee
- Sam Wolf
- Date
-
interview:
2005 November 25
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives. Jews--Poland--Kraków. World War, 1939-1945--Kazakhstan. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Soviet. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Poland. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Kazakhstan. Kraków (Poland) Poland--Armed Forces. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Siberia (Russia) World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Personal Name
- Wolf, Sam, 1909-
- Corporate Name
- Anders' Army (Polish 2nd Corps)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Howard Gold donated his grandfather's oral history interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 22, 2006. The interview was transferred to the Museum's Oral History branch in May 2011.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:21:42
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