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Oral history interview with Marianna Kurkowska

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.32 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0032

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    Oral history interview with Marianna Kurkowska

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Marianna Kurkowska, born in Opole Lubelskie, Poland, discusses her sporadic schooling during the war; the arrival of German forces in her village; her Jewish childhood friend; the creation of a ghetto in the city; conditions in the ghetto; witnessing her friend’s murder; local villagers removing clothing from dead bodies; villagers throwing food into the ghetto; methods in which Jewish prisoners were killed in Poniatowa; and a German guard who warned partisans about actions against them.
    Interviewee
    Marianna Kurowska
    Interviewer
    Michal Sobelman
    Date
    interview:  1998 July 08
    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).

    Rights & Restrictions

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Kurowska, Marianna.

    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 conducted the interview with Marianna Kurkowska in Opole Lubelsicie, Poland on July 8, 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 08:53:54
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