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Oral history interview with Joseph Likwornik

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.571 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0571

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    Oral history interview with Joseph Likwornik

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Joseph Likwornik discusses his childhood in a small shtetl in western Poland; the Soviet occupation of the town in 1939; the flight of his father, sisters and one brother to Palestine; the arrest and deportation to Siberia of his other brother; joining the Soviet Communist youth group Komsomol; being trained as projectionist in Lvov; his assignment in Dombrovitz showing Soviet propaganda movies; his experiences after the German invasion; escaping until reaching Ostrogorsk, where he was drafted into the Red Army; his experiences in the Soviet Army; the Battle of Stalingrad; the Soviet Army's pursuit of the Nazi German troops; learning of the fate of Jews in shtetls across Poland; and being in Dresden in May 1945 as the war ended; deserting the Soviet Army in a disguise; arriving at a displaced persons camp in Leibniz, Austria, where he met his wife and had a son; their decision to immigrate to Palestine; their travels through Italy; their decision to instead immigrate to the United States in 1946; their life and businesses in New York; moving to Israel in 1965; returning to the United States permanently in 1978 to be closer to their son; his life and pastimes in California.
    Interviewee
    Joseph Likwornik
    Interviewer
    Sylvia Prozan
    Date
    interview:  1992 December 29
    interview:  1993 March 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Likwornik, Joseph.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Joseph Likwornik on December 29, 1992 and March 2, 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in February 2003.
    Funding Note
    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 08:45:47
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