Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Oral history interview with Anna Świetlicka

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.136 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0136

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    Oral history interview with Anna Świetlicka

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Anna Świetlicka (née Lysakowska), born in Piaski, Poland in 1928, discusses prewar relations between Jews and Christians; the outbreak of war; the humiliation of the Jewish community by German forces; witnessing a Jewish woman commit suicide; the creation of the ghetto; the role of the Jewish police in the ghetto; witnessing transports of Jewish men, women, and children being taken for execution in 1943; witnessing foreign Jews being imprisoned in the ghetto; visiting the ghetto after the war; and two Jewish girls who returned to their families after being hidden during the war.
    Interviewee
    Anna Swietlicka
    Date
    interview:  2002 June 17
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Polish
    Extent
    2 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Świetlicka, Anna.

    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.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:54:33
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/irn513181

    Additional Resources

    Download & Licensing

    In-Person Research

    Contact Us