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Oral history interview with Andrzej W. Jurkiewicz

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.569 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0569

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    Oral history interview with Andrzej W. Jurkiewicz

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Andrzej W. Jurkiewicz, born in Torun, Poland, discusses his Christian family; the German invasion; being a messenger for the Polish underground at eight years old; his family hiding three Jews for six months; his mother feeding hungry Jewish children who escaped the ghetto beg for food; Hungarians giving arms to the Polish underground; the Warsaw ghetto after its destruction; his deportation to Pruêko [PH] concentration camp, then Poznan, then Vienna (digging air shelters) until the end of 1944; his family returning to Poland to care for his grandmother; being harassed because his father was declared an enemy of the Soviet state; finishing his education and going to Wroclaw (Breslau); his father immigrating to Argentina then the United States; his mother joining his father in the 1960s; and immigrating himself in 1972 while his sister stayed in Poland.
    Interviewee
    Andrzej W. Jurkiewicz
    Interviewer
    Dr. Nora Levin
    Date
    interview:  1986 August 06
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Jurkiewicz, Andrzej W.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive donated the interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:39:23
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