Overview
- Interview Summary
- Adam (Abram) Leczycki, born August 16, 1926 in Łódź, Poland, describes living with his family in a Jewish neighborhood in Łódź that later became the ghetto during WWII; living in the ghetto until it was liquidated in August 1944; being taken to Auschwitz; being transferred to Sachsenhausen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps; being liberated by the British Army; returning to Poland; and immigrating to Israel in 1956 and then the United States.
- Interviewee
- Adam Leczycki
- Interviewer
- Lana Grey
- Date
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interview:
2015
- Geography
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Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lana Grey
Physical Details
- Extent
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2 digital files : MP3.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp inmates. Forced labor. Holocaust survivors--Israel. Holocaust survivors--United States. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź. Jews--Persecutions--Poland. Jews--Poland--Łódź. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Israel--Emigration and immigration. Lower Saxony (Germany) Łódź (Poland) Oranienburg (Germany) United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Leczycki, Adam, 1926-
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Lana Grey donated the oral history interview wtih Adam Leczycki to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 2016. The interview was conducted in 2015 by Lana Grey.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 09:35:15
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