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Oral history interview with Jerzy Bielecki

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.41 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0041

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    Oral history interview with Jerzy Bielecki

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jerzy Bifjecki, born in Slaboszów, Poland in 1921, discusses his prewar Jewish friends in Kraków, Poland; being arrested and sent to Auschwitz in 1940 for attempting to cross into Poland; work conditions in the camp; witnessing the experimental gassing of Soviet prisoners of war; the observance of holidays in Auschwitz; escaping the camp with a Jewish girl; and reuniting with her 39 years later.
    Interviewee
    Jerzy Bielecki
    Interviewer
    Michal Cichy
    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
    7 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Bielecki, Jerzy, 1921-

    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 Cichy conducted the interview with Jerzy Bielecki 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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