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Oral history interview with Jan Gołąbek

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.115 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0115

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    Oral history interview with Jan Gołąbek

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jan Gołąbek, born in 1910 in Kracow, Poland, describes his profession as an engineer; restrictions placed upon the Jewish community during the German occupation; his family hiding a Jewish woman for the duration of the war; his involvement in the Union of Armed Struggle; his arrest by the Gestapo; his imprisonment, torture, and escape; living in hiding for the remainder of the war; a Polish captain who helped organize resistance movements; helping a Jewish woman obtain false documents which allowed her to survive the war; the liberation of Kracow by Soviet forces; and the pogrom in Kracow after the war.
    Interviewee
    Jan Golabek
    Date
    interview:  1999 October 08
    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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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Gołąbek, 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 08:54:26
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