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Oral history interview with Józef Paczesny

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.157 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0157

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    Oral history interview with Józef Paczesny

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Józef Paczesny, born in Lutomirów, Poland in 1930, discusses living in Kolo, Poland during the war; being taken for forced labor near Chelmno, Poland in 1942; hearing from locals about gas vans at the beginning of the war; the regular arrival of transports intended for the gas chambers; the arrival process; the atmosphere of fear; the organized theft of clothing; conditions for Jewish prisoners; beatings and hunger; leaving food for the prisoners; the arrival of transports from the Łódź ghetto; and individual murders.
    Interviewee
    Jozef Paczesny
    Date
    interview:  2002 July 13
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Paczesny, Jozef.

    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.
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    2023-11-16 08:54:41
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