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Oral history interview with Anatole Gorko

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.10 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0010

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    Oral history interview with Anatole Gorko

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    Interview Summary
    Anatole Gorko, born in Łódź, Poland on June 28, 1907, describes his well-to-do Zionist family; working in his father’s spinning factory until 1939, when Germany invaded Poland; fighting in the Polish Army for three weeks; being taken to a prisoner-of-war camp for a few weeks; living with his family in the center of the Łódź Ghetto and life there; working as head cashier for the ghetto stores until August 1944; being deported with his family, including his wife and child, to Auschwitz in cattle cars; being selected with his brother-in-law for work while the rest of the family perished; remaining in Auschwitz for one month, then pretending to be a mechanic and being selected for a camp in Sudetenland, where after two weeks of training he worked on V2 rockets; his sabotage and persuading other workers, including German mechanics, to sabotage the work; working there from September 1944 until May 1945 when the Russians liberated the area; making his way back to Łódź, where he remarried; becoming head of the textile production for Communist Poland, but deciding to leave; smuggling himself and his wife to Munich, Germany, and waiting from 1946 to 1948 to obtain necessary papers to resettle in the United States; and his adjustment to the US.
    Interviewee
    Anatol Gorko
    Interviewer
    Eileen Steinberg
    Date
    interview:  1985 August 20
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Gorko, Anatole, 1907-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Anatole Gorko in Philadelphia, PA on August 20, 1985. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College on September 26, 1997.
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