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Oral history interview with Józef Świętojański

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.13 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0013

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    Oral history interview with Józef Świętojański

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Józef Świętojański, born in Chlewiska, Poland near Belzec in 1916, discusses fighting in the Polish Army in 1939; returning to Chlewska while it was under Soviet occupation; working at the Belzec train station; watching the building of the camp; witnessing the arrival of Jewish and Romani transports; the transport process; hearing about the gassing process; hearing sounds from inside the killing center; witnessing prisoners attempt to escape execution; the Ukrainian guards at Belzec; the atmosphere of fear during the war; the militia that guarded the site after the war; and commemorations villagers leave in the forest for those killed.
    Interviewee
    Józef Swietojanski
    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
    Świętojańsk, Józef.

    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 Józef Świętojański 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.
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    2023-11-16 08:53:47
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