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Oral history interview with Tadeusz Jarosz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.9 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0009

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    Oral history interview with Tadeusz Jarosz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Tadeusz Jarosz, born in Brzeziny, Poland near Belzec in 1928, discusses befriending Ukrainian guards at the killing center Belzec as a child; trading food with the guards; hearing about gassings in the camp from a guard; his memories of the camp’s construction; the arrival process of Jewish prisoners to Belzec; climbing trees to see inside Belzec; relations among German, Russian, and Ukrainian guards; violence and cruelty inside the camp; witnessing the camp's liquidation; the burning of bodies; the atmosphere of fear during the war; and local villagers who attempted to loot mass graves after the war.
    Interviewee
    Tadeusz Jarosz
    Interviewer
    Michal Cichy
    Michal Sobelman
    Date
    interview:  1998 March 13
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Polish
    Extent
    2 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Jarosz, Tadeusz, 1928-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak. Michal Sobelman and Michal Cichy conducted the interview with Tadeusz Jarosz in Brzeziny, Poland on March 13, 1998, for the Polish Witnesses to the Holocaust Project.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview on November 13, 1998.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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