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Oral history interview with Zbigniew Stefan Kuligowski

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.249 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0249

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    Oral history interview with Zbigniew Stefan Kuligowski

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    Interview Summary
    Zbigniew Stefan Kuligowski discusses his experience as a gentile Pole living in Warsaw from the invasion by the Germans in 1939 up until the end of the failed Warsaw Uprising in 1944; the complexities of his childhood and unhappy family life with an abusive father and mostly absent mother; his father's position as the director of the largest chemical factory in Poland; the limited protection that his father's position provided under German overseers; the Gestapo's arrest and murder of his older brother upon suspicion of organizing a resistance unit with former classmates from a Polish officers' school; the deportation of his father's Jewish secretary and mistress to the Warsaw Ghetto; the conditions in which his father's now former mistress lived in the ghetto; his father's abandonment of him; his daytime strategies to avoid the Gestapo; his realization of the fate of Jews who were being deported to Treblinka; his ill-fated attempts to warn Jews, who were being deported, that they were being sent to their deaths; witnessing events during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising; joining the Home Army; being wounded and spending the rest of the uprising in convalescence; surrendering with his unit to the Germans and being sent to a prisoner of war camp in Austria; starving and escaping twice -- the second time successfully; being liberated near Munich by the Americans, joining General Anders' army in Italy; and emigrating to the United Kingdom, where he has lived for the past fifty plus years
    Interviewee
    Zbigniew S. Kuligowski
    Date
    interview:  2004 August 25
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

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    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. Ina Navazelskis conducted the interview with Zbigniew Stefan Kuligowski in Washington, D.C. for the Polish Witnesses to the Holocaust Project on August 25, 2004. The interview was received by the Archives branch in September 2004.
    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 08:55:16
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