Overview
- 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
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inclusive:
1940-1985
- Collection Creator
- Charles Kotkowsky
- Biography
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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
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives.
- Extent
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3 folders
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic
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- 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).
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. Forced labor. Forced migration--Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors. Jewish councils. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Czestochowa. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Piotrków Trybunalski. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Jews--Poland. Jews--Relocation--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements. Zionism--Associations, institutions, etc. Uprisings.
- Geographic Name
- Kdyne (Czech Republic) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Mr. Charles Kotkowsky
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- 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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