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Oral history interview with Wiktoria Sałęga

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.19 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0019

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    Oral history interview with Wiktoria Sałęga

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Wiktoria Sałęga, born in Grabów, Poland in 1919, discusses moving to Trawniki, Poland; Trawniki’s prewar Jewish community; the German invasion; the establishment of a concentration camp next door to her house; laundering German officers’ clothing; refusing to eat food provided to them by the Germans; providing food to Jewish prisoners; witnessing a mass killing during the camp’s liquidation; details of the killing process; being relocated while the Germans burned the bodies; and how local villagers looted the graves after the war.
    Interviewee
    Wiktoria Sałęga
    Interviewer
    Michal Sobelman
    Michal Cichy
    Date
    interview:  1998 March 15
    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
    Sałęga, Wiktoria.

    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 Wiktoria Sałęga in Trawniki, Poland on March 15, 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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:53:49
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