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Oral history interview with Włodzimierz Dackiewicz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.51 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0051

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    Oral history interview with Włodzimierz Dackiewicz

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    Interview Summary
    Włodzimierz Dackiewicz, born in Białowieża, Poland in 1930, discusses his family history; his mother’s adoption as a child by a Jewish family; the fate of her adopted family during the war; ethnic relations during the interwar period; conditions under the Soviet occupation; the arrival of German forces; German forces inciting ethnic tensions; Hermann Goring’s visit to Białowieża; his father’s arrest; his mother’s job as a translator for German forces; the execution of political prisoners; witnessing the arrest of the town’s Jewish community by Ukrainian and German forces; Jewish forced labor; witnessing the burning of members of the Jewish community in a barn; the formation of a ghetto in a nearby town; sexual assault; a mass killing of Jewish people; public hangings; a mass execution of Christian villagers on Orthodox Christmas day; torture; hiding a Jewish woman for two weeks; the end of the war; and the tearing down of the synagogue after the war.
    Interviewee
    Wlodzimierz Dackiewicz
    Date
    interview:  1998 November 10
    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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    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 08:54:02
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