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Charles Kotkowsky papers

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.045

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    Description
    Includes articles, essays, and publications concerning the Piotrków Trybunalski Jewish community in Canada, the Jewish Fighting Organization, and the plight of children in the ghettos and camps. Also included is “Remnants: Memoirs of a Survivor,” a testimony of Holocaust survival by Charles Kotkowsky. The testimony describes Kotkowsky’s life in the Piotrków ghetto, his participation in an underground resistance movement, his imprisonment in two concentration camps, and his escape from a railroad transport.
    Date
    inclusive:  1940-1985
    Collection Creator
    Charles Kotkowsky
    Biography
    Charles Kotkowsky is a native of Piotrków, Poland. He participated in underground resistance while living in the Piotrków ghetto and was a victim of slave labor there. He was deported to Buchenwald and later transferred to Flossenbürg. He managed to escape his German captors during a railroad transport through Czechoslovakia.

    Physical Details

    Extent
    3 folders
    System of Arrangement
    Arrangement is thematic

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).

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    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Mr. Charles Kotkowsky
    Provenance
    Source of acquisition is Charles Kotkowsky via Coralie Farlee. donated in Dec. 1989. They were transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Jan. 1990.
    Record last modified:
    2023-08-28 09:15:47
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