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Oral history interview with Maria Medwit

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.100 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0100

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    Oral history interview with Maria Medwit

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Maria Medwit, born in 1909 in Przemyśl, Poland, describes the prewar community of Przemyśl; life under Soviet occupation; life under German occupation; securing the release of her brother who had been arrested; witnessing a local policeman murder a Jewish man; the ghetto in Przemyśl; sheltering a Jewish child for a period of time during the war; her neighbor hiding a Jewish family; the liquidation of the Przemyśl ghetto, including the looting of Jewish owned belongings by local townspeople; the sight of carts filled with corpses; her postwar contact with the Jewish girl she hid during the war; and a medal her family received for hiding a Jewish child.
    Interviewee
    Maria Medwit
    Date
    interview:  1999 July 13
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Polish
    Extent
    1 videocasette (Betacam SP).

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Medwit, Maria.

    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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:54:20
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