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Oral history interview with Stefan Kirsz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.12 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0012

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    Oral history interview with Stefan Kirsz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Stefan Kirsz, born in Krystonopol, Russia (present day Chervonohrad, Ukraine) in 1915, discusses fighting in the Polish Army in 1939; being captured as a prisoner of war; his release to Rawa-Ruska, Poland (present day Rava-Rus'ka, Ukraine); living a normal life under the Soviet occupation; moving to Belżec in 1940; training as an engine driver for trains; driving trains along the Belżec to Rawa-Ruska line; transporting prisoners to the Belżec killing center, including Jewish people and Polish prisoners; the German and Ukrainian guards on the train and at the Belżec station; the technical process of transporting prisoners to the killing center; hearing cries for water from the trains; the atmosphere of fear during the war; being unaware of how Jewish prisoners were executed; and the Polish and German station masters in Belżec.
    Interviewee
    Stefan Kirsz
    Interviewer
    Michal Sobelman
    Michael Tregenza
    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
    1 videocasette (Betacam SP).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kirsz, Stefan.

    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 Michael Tregenza conducted the interview with Stefan Kirsz in Belzec, Poland on March 13, 1998, for the Polish Witnesses to the Holocaust Project.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tape 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:53:47
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