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Oral history interview with Jan Pędziwiatr

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.250 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0250

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    Oral history interview with Jan Pędziwiatr

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jan Pędziwiatr, born in 1921 in Oświęcim-Dwory, Poland, describes his forced labor in Auschwitz concentration camp along with Jewish prisoners; camp guards killing and beating Jewish prisoners in retaliation for the murder of an SS officer; the burning of corpses; the selection and murder of Soviet soldiers and other individual prisoners; and inspecting the ruins of a gas chamber destroyed by prisoners.
    Interviewee
    Jan Pędziwiatr
    Date
    interview:  2005 November 10
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Polish
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Pędziwiatr, Jan.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:55:16
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