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Oral history interview with Anastazja Mazur Brodziak

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1991.A.0113.2 | RG Number: RG-50.059.0002

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    Oral history interview with Anastazja Mazur Brodziak

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    Interview Summary
    Anastazja Brodziak, born in Armenia on December 28, 1915, describes her parents; her family returning to Poland when she was four years old; her Catholic, blue collar family; moving from place to place through the country and eventually they settled down in Volhynia, Ukraine; her father working as a farm laborer; the large Jewish population in Volhynia and never noticing antisemitism in her family or amongst her school friends; her family moving to Warsaw, Poland in 1929; attending a high school where most of the students were Jewish; the harmony between the Jews and Christians; graduating in 1935 from teachers' seminary; working in the Polish White Cross for educational programs with soldiers beginning in 1936; teaching illiterate soldiers basic academic skills; teaching the 21st Infantry Regiment at the Warsaw Citadel; enrolling in an education curriculum at the Free University in Warsaw; marrying a student of the School of Foreign Affairs in April 1939; her husband working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs then the post office; she and her husband working with the Polish resistance; hiding a Jew named Julian Kulko, who was a refugee from L'viv, Ukraine; moving him to her mother’s home, where he lived until the Warsaw Uprising in 1944; the death of her father and one of her sisters in a train accident in June 1942; moving with her husband to the part of Warsaw called Goclawek; taking in and hiding a couple for a few months; hiding two other Jews for few days as they waited for documents; the Gestapo searching their house and not finding the Jews because they already moved to another hiding place; her experience during the interrogation and being in shock after; giving shelter to a Jewish friend, named Najkruk (false name Michal Jaworski), and his wife and son (Jerzy); staying friends with the Jewish families they helped; taking part in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944; her husband and one of her brothers being killed in the fights in Old City; being sent to a prisoner-of-war camp with her detachment; her job as a courier of the underground army; reporting to Miss Halina Guc, who lived at Miedziana Street in Warsaw, picking up passport photos and personal information about individuals who needed false documents; delivering these documents to another member of the underground at Mala Street; the arrest of Miss Guc in June 1944; avoiding Germans on street cars when she was delivering false documents; being sent to the POW camps in Bergen-Belsen and Oberlangen; being liberated on April 12, 1945 by the 2nd Armored Regiment under General Maczek; being assigned to General Maczek's regiment as an education officer; the roundups and the ghetto in Warsaw; not seeing antisemitism after the war; her numerous Jewish friends; Zofia Jaworska nominating her and her deceased husband as Righteous Gentiles from Yad Vashem in 1984; and going to Jerusalem to plant an olive tree in Yad Vashem in 1986.
    Interviewee
    Anastazja M. Brodziak
    Interviewer
    Bozenna M. Urbanowicz-Gilbride
    Date
    interview:  1991 June 13

    Physical Details

    Language
    Polish
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Brodziak, Anastazja.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Bozenna M. Urbanowicz-Gilbride conducted the interview with Anastazja Mazur Brodziak on June 13, 1991 in Warsaw, Poland. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the tape of the interview from Mrs. Urbanowicz-Gilbride on September 20, 1991. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the interview by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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