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Oral history interview with Esther Kozlowski

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.710 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0710

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    Oral history interview with Esther Kozlowski

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    Interview Summary
    Esther Kozlowski describes her childhood in Wrotslaw and Kielce, Poland; attending a Catholic Polish school; her marriage in 1938; the birth of her son in 1939; the outbreak of World War II; her husband's detention in a labor camp; her escape from the ghetto in August 1942 to Krakow; surviving the war years passing as a non-Jew; using false identity papers; hiding with friends in Krakow and Warsaw; her liberation in a village by the Soviet Army in September 1944; traveling to Lublin; her state of ill health and the terrible conditions in Poland after the war; her move to Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland) in 1946; living in a displaced persons camp for three years; and her immigration to the United States.
    Interviewee
    Esther Kozlowski
    Interviewer
    Howard Felson
    Evelyn Fielden
    Tami Newnham
    Jill Nierman
    Ellen Szakal
    Date
    interview:  1990 August 08
    interview:  1991 June 19
    interview:  1991 November 19
    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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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Esther Kozlowski on August 8, 1990, June 19, 1991, and November 19, 1991. The interview was received by the Archives Branch in July 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 08:46:29
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