Overview
- Interview Summary
- William Kornbluth discusses Germany's invasion of Poland; his time in the Tarnow Ghetto and four concentration camps; the selection process in the camps; daily hardships in the camps; the treatment of Soviet prisoners; and human behavior and the nature of hatred. Edith Kornbluth describes her family's time in a ghetto in Poland; their escape to the forests where they had to avoid partisan units and the Polish Home Army; posing as a non-Jew and living with a Polish couple who needed someone to look after their children; visiting her parents who were hiding in the woods; the death of her parents, sister, and all of her extended family; how a German soldier defied an SS officer’s orders to shoot her family members; antisemitism in Poland; and Poles who saved many Jews by hiding them in their homes.
- Interviewee
- Mr. William Kornbluth
Mrs. Edith Kornbluth - Date
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interview:
1995
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jonathan Schwartz.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Jonathan Schwartz donated his recording of William Kornbluth and Edith Kornbluth's oral testimony to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Archives Branch in June 2010. The recording was transferred to the Museum's Oral History Branch in January 2011.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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- 2023-11-16 09:21:42
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