Overview
- Interview Summary
- 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.
- Interviewee
- Joseph Kolek
- Interviewer
- Michael Gray
- Date
-
interview:
1984
- Geography
-
creation:
Poland.
Physical Details
- Extent
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3 sound cassettes (60 min.).
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- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp escapes. Concentration camp inmates. Guerrillas--Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland. Jews--Persecutions--Poland. Men--Personal narratives. Political prisoners--Poland. Torture. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland. Prisons.
- Geographic Name
- Lublin (Poland) Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Personal Name
- Kolek, Joseph.
- Corporate Name
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- 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.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 08:41:17
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