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Oral history interview with Jan Zimnoch

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.48 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0048

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    Oral history interview with Jan Zimnoch

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jan Zimnoch, born in Saniki (Sanniki), Poland near Tykocin in 1917, discusses prewar relations between Jews and Christians; living conditions under the Soviet occupation; deportations to Siberia and Kazakhstan; relations between Jewish and Christian residents during the Soviet occupation; being arrested twice; the arrival of German forces; hearing about the mass killing of Tykocin’s Jewish community; Poles who helped hide Jewish people; partisan activities; being forced to clean out the Bialystok ghetto after its liquidation; Polish people moving into empty Jewish houses; and postwar relations between Jews and Christians.
    Interviewee
    Jan Zimnoch
    Date
    interview:  1998 November 09
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Zimnoch, Jan.

    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.
    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 08:54:01
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