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Oral history interview with Piotr Sadowski

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.26 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0026

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    Oral history interview with Piotr Sadowski

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Piotr Sadowski, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923, discusses joining an underground youth group in 1940; being arrested and sent to Auschwitz in 1941; falling ill in the camp; witnessing a selection while in the hospital; joining a work brigade called the strafkompanie (penal work brigade); becoming a singer in the camp; working on the construction of the first gas chamber; relations among prisoners in the camp; being sent to Dachau, Buchenwald, and Ohrdruf concentration camps; and liberation.
    Interviewee
    Piotr Sadowski
    Date
    interview:  1998 July 06
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Sadowski, Piotr.

    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 Piotr Sadowski in Warsaw, Poland on July 6, 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 08:53:52
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