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Oral history interview with Jerzy Glówczewski

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2013.82.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0699

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    Oral history interview with Jerzy Glówczewski

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    Interview Summary
    Jerzy Glówczewski, born in 1922 to a gentry family, describes escaping Poland as a teenager soon after the Nazi and Soviet invasion; fleeing to Romania with his stepfather, and eventually making his way to Palestine via Turkey; graduating from the Polish high school in Tel Aviv; being accepted into the Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade; volunteering to serve in the air force in 1942; undergoing flight training in Britain; being posted to fly Spitfires in the No. 308 "City of Krakow" Polish Fighter Squadron in 1944; shooting down a Focke-Wulf 190 in January 1945 at his unit’s base in Ghent, Belgium; flying over 100 missions against the Germans during the latter half of the war; and writing his memoirs, The Accidental Immigrant.
    Interviewee
    Jerzy Glówczewski
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2013 May 07

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital file : MPEG-4.

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    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Jerzy Glówczewski in Brooklyn, NY on May 7, 2013.
    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 08:04:22
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