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Oral history interview with Kazimierz Piechowski

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.314 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0314

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    Oral history interview with Kazimierz Piechowski

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Kazimierz Piechowski, born in 1919 in Poland, describes his arrest in 1939 and imprisonment in Sanok, Nowy Wiśnicz, and Kraków; his transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940; conditions in Auschwitz; his forced labor and murders committed by SS officers; resistance by prisoners, including the forging of documents to enable other prisoners to avoid execution; his escape in 1942; joining the Polish Home Army in which he fought until the end of the war; and his arrest after the war for his membership in the Polish Home Army.
    Interviewee
    Kazimierz Piechowski
    Interviewer
    Patrycja Bukalska
    Date
    interview:  2010 July 30
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Piechowski, Kazimierz.

    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 08:55:40
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