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Oral history interview with Józef Petruczenko

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.305 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0305

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    Oral history interview with Józef Petruczenko

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Józef Petruczenko, born in 1929 in Międzyrzec Podlaski, Poland, describes restrictions placed upon the Jewish community under the German occupation; witnessing the persecution of Jews by German soldiers, including murders; the roundup and deportation of the local Jews, including the murders of those not caught in the initial roundup; the murder of a group of Polish girls who were mistaken for Jewish girls; Czechoclovakian and Hungarian Jews brought to the local ghetto; his mother giving food to Jews in the ghetto; and witnessing serveral mass shootings of Jews by German soldiers and local policemen.
    Interviewee
    Józef Petruczenko
    Interviewer
    Patrycja Bukalska
    Date
    interview:  2010 May 04
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Petruczenko, Józef.

    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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:55:37
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