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Oral history interview with Joseph Kolek

Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0034 | RG Number: RG-50.466.0001

Joseph Kolek, a Polish partisan during WWII, discusses his activities with the underground movement; being captured and tortured at the Lublin Castle and then interned in Majdanek; being moved to a satellite camp near the main Majdanek camp; escaping; and returning to the partisan lines.


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Interviewee
Joseph Kolek
Interviewer
Michael Gray
Date
interview:  1984
Geography
creation: Poland.
Language
English
Polish
Extent
3 sound cassettes (60 min.).

About This Oral History

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Michael Gray conducted this oral history interview while an undergraduate visiting Poland. Michael Gray asks the questions in English and Joseph Kolek's son, Leszek S. Kolek, translates them into Polish for his father. Michael Gray brought the oral history interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on February 10, 1998.

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Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use

 
Record last modified: 2021-07-07 13:04:02
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