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Oral history interview with Stanley Blake

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.68 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0068

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    Oral history interview with Stanley Blake

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Stanley Blake, born in 1922 in Kielce, Poland, discusses growing up Catholic; growing up fatherless; the beginning of the war in 1939; joining Poland’s paramilitary against the German invasion; being captured; being sent on a transport to Darmstadt, Germany; doing forced labor on a farm in Eberstadt; escaping; being captured and imprisoned in Mannheim; being transferred to Bruchsal prison and staying there for several weeks; being sent to Welzheim concentration camp; taking a street car to work in the Stuttgart foundry; overhearing Czech/German intelligence (Stanley was able to speak and understand German) and sent a letter to the Polish underground; fleeing into the woods towards Poland and joining the Polish National resistance; his work with the underground movement; allowing himself to be captured again to obtain intelligence; doing forced labor on a farm and later as a mechanic in Hanover; hearing about the capture and hangings of his friends in the resistance; being referred to in the network as a “Lonesome Wolf”; escaping to Berlin; walking for seven days to Kraków, Poland; being sent back to Germany for intelligence in 1943; his job washing clothes for the German military; discovering containers that released smoke during air raids to obscure the ground; being caught with a pistol and being captured and tortured; being sent to Mauthausen concentration camp; conditions in the camp; having dysentery from turnip soup; doing forced labor on a railroad; Nazi’s constant counting; having an armband with a red triangle; the suicide attempts; escaping the camp with a friend to the mountain; seeing a tank; meeting up with American troops; spending three years in England; going to the United States in 1950; serving in the US Air Force in 1952; getting married in 1962; becoming a lithographer for Detroit News; visiting Poland; reuniting with his mother after 27 years apart; meeting his step-brother; and his thoughts on the loss of Jewish life during the war.
    Interviewee
    Stanley Blake
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back
    Date
    interview:  1991 June 10

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Blake, Stanley.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Stanley Blake on June 10, 1991 with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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    2023-11-16 08:08:34
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