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Oral history interview with Jerzy Czyźewski

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.139 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0139

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    Oral history interview with Jerzy Czyźewski

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Jerzy Czyźewski, born in Warsaw, Poland in 1931, discusses living on Zelażna Street overlooking the small ghetto; smuggling food into the ghetto; wearing a Star of David armband in the ghetto; bribing guards; hunger and violence in the ghetto; the liquidation of the ghetto; suicides during the ghetto’s liquidation; the killing of a Jewish man who tried to escape the ghetto; reflections on his behavior towards Jews as a child; the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; being wounded during the Warsaw Uprising; and his parents’ deportation to concentration camps after the Warsaw Uprising.
    Interviewee
    Jerzy Czyzewski
    Date
    interview:  2002 June 19
    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..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Czyźewski, Jerzy.

    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 08:54:34
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