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Oral history interview with Jan Zdebik

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.24 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0024

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    Oral history interview with Jan Zdebik

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jan Zdebik, born in Rzeszów, Poland in 1921, discusses being sent to Auschwitz as part of the first transport of Polish prisoners (the Tarnów transport); hunger in the camp; his assignment to a job in the camp hospital; witnessing experimental gassings in Block 11; working as a waiter in the SS cantina and listening to the BBC; seeing a selection in Birkenau; and being transferred to Sachsenhausen in 1944.
    Interviewee
    Jan Zdebik
    Date
    interview:  1998 July 05
    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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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Zdebik, Jan.

    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 JanuaryZdebik in Warsaw, Poland on July 5, 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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    2023-11-16 08:53:51
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