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Oral history interview with Jan Michalak

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.78 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0078

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    Oral history interview with Jan Michalak

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    Interview Summary
    Jan Michalak, born on July 26, 1919 in Siedlce, Poland, describes seeing Jews being forced to carry heavy logs (telephone posts) and beaten; Jews being forced to wear the Star of David patch; the burning of the synagogue; liquidation of the ghetto; seeing the German officer Fabish pointing out Jews to be shot by the Latvian guards; witnessing the massacre of Jews who were converts to Christianity at the Jewish cemetery; joining the Polish Workers Party (Polska Partia Robotnicza; PPR) and travelling to Warsaw, Poland to bring underground pamphlets to Siedlce and Kaluszyn; driving Julian Grobelny, who was the leader of the żegota (an organization for helping Jews); and other organizations involved in the resistance.
    Interviewee
    Jan Michalak
    Date
    interview:  1999 July 08
    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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    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 08:54:12
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