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Oral history interview with Edmund Potok

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.315 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0538

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    Oral history interview with Edmund Potok

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Edmund Potok, born March 6, 1929, discusses being from a traditional and wealthy family; attending a private school in Katowice; speaking Polish at home; going to Warsaw with his family, and then to Otwock with 42 other family members; Russian soldiers confiscating his family’s truck and sending the family to L'viv, Ukraine; the NKVD coming, registering them, and taking his family to Russia in 1940; taking a train to Krasnoye in the Urals; his father’s job as an engineer; attending school where he learned Russian; Russia joining the war against Germany; being evacuated to Tashkent and to Djabad Abad where his father worked as an engineer; staying there until April 1946, when they were able to go back to Katowice; getting their apartment and their belongings back from those who were occupying it; graduating from the Russian-language high school; starting to work; all 42 family members coming back from Russia; attending university in Kraków; marrying and moving to Huta, Poland; and eventually moving to Sweden.
    Interviewee
    Edmund Potok
    Interviewer
    Ms. Teresa A. Pollin
    Date
    interview:  2009 March 09
    Geography
    creation: Washington (D.C.)

    Physical Details

    Language
    Polish
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Potok, Edmund, 1929-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Edmund Potok in Washington, DC on March 3, 2009. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in January 2010.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:03:27
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