Overview
- Interview Summary
- Sam Bronkesh discusses his early life in Ryki, Poland; prewar relations with Poles; the social and political atmosphere of prewar Ryki; daily life in Ryki including religion, commerce, sports, and politics; the German invasion of Poland; family members who were sent to local concentration camps; how he escaped from a concentration camp into the surrounding forest; how he helped his three brothers and others escape from a concentration camp; the daily life of partisans in the forest, including food, housing, and medical care; relations among Jewish, Polish, and Russian partisans; how the partisans took in people who escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto; how his partisan unit fought the Nazis; his post-war job as a police officer in Lublin, Poland; how he met and married his wife; his family’s immigration to Germany and the United States; working in the United States after the war; his experiences with unions; his postwar adjustment to daily life; and his feelings about his Polish identity.
- Interviewee
- Sam Bronkesh
- Date
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interview:
approximately 1985
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sheryl Bronkesh
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories.
- Extent
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digital files : WAV.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews. Jews--Poland--Ryki (Warsaw) Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Personal Name
- Bronkesh, Sam.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Sheryl Bronkesh donated a copy of her father Sam Bronkesh’s oral testimony to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 2012.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:28:53
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