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Oral history interview with Lech Grześkowiak

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.40 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0040

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    Oral history interview with Lech Grześkowiak

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Lech Grześkowiak, born in Pyzdry, Poland in 1920, discusses his work in the underground; being arrested and sent to Auschwitz; his memories of Block 11; his harsh work conditions in the strafkompanie work detail (penal work detail); torture in the camp; his transfer to Mauthausen; violence committed against Jewish prisoners by guards; the low survival rate; and the role of kapos in the camps.
    Interviewee
    Lech Grzeskowiak
    Date
    interview:  1998 July 11
    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
    Grześkowiak, 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 Grześkowiak in Oswiecim, Poland on July 11, 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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