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Oral history interview with Lech Piekałkiewicz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.21 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0021

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    Oral history interview with Lech Piekałkiewicz
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    Interview Summary
    Lech Piekalkiewicz, born in Poznań, Poland in 1924, discusses his prewar relationships with Jews; moving to Warsaw, Poland and living with his uncle, Jan Palkiewicz, the deputy Prime Minister of the Polish Underground Government; being arrested along with the rest of his family in 1943 by the Gestapo; being interrogated and tortured in Pawiak prison; witnessing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from prison; his uncle’s death from torture; being sent to Auschwitz-Brikenau; conditions in the camp, including food, selections, work, and adaptations people had to make; leading a work commando of Romani; being removed and getting a job cutting grass in camp; witnessing the gassing process; being sent to the concentration camp Neuengamme in Germany; working in a factory in Hanover, Germany; being taken on a forced march to Bergen Belsen; the difficult conditions in Bergen Belsen; and his liberation by the British Army.
    Interviewee
    Lech Piekałkiewicz
    Date
    interview:  1998 July 04
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Piekalkiewicz, Lech.

    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. The interview was conducted with Lech Piekałkiewicz in Warsaw, Poland on July 4, 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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