Overview
- Interview Summary
- Danuta Bachowski (née Worobel) , born November 15, 1926 in Lezachow, Poland, discusses her childhood and education; Germany’s bombing of Poland when she was a teenager ; her parents’ warnings about the German people; her memories of German soldiers; being ordered to surrender all radios and weapons to local police; the black market for food in Poland; the imprisonment and death of her father, who was sent to Auschwitz because he was accused of being a communist; her shrapnel wounds from a German bomb; undergoing surgery in forests and being hospitalized for months; hidden radios to report events that the German-controlled press would not broadcast; her imprisonment for her association with an organization that allegedly killed Polish police officers; extensive harassment and physical abuse by the Polish secret police; hiding in a barn to avoid the police; and her marriage to her husband and the difficulties of their immigration to the United States.
- Interviewee
- Danuta Bachowski
- Interviewer
- Reid Geyer
- Date
-
interview:
2011 November 05
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Linda de Marlor
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories.
- Extent
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2 DVDs.
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- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org
- Copyright Holder
- Linda de Marlor
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews. World War, 1939-1945. Jews--Poland. Hiding places--Poland. United States--Emigration and immigration. Women--Personal narratives.
- Personal Name
- Bachowski, Danuta.
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Linda de Marlor donated a copy of the oral history interview with her mother-in-law Danuta Bachowski to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2012.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:28:54
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