Overview
- Description
- This documentary film details the Holocaust experience of Joseph Polonski, one of two known individuals to escape from the Treblinka death camp. The film profiles Polonski's life before, during, and after the Holocaust. It includes original narration, excerpts from an interview with Joseph Polonski, as well as archival photographs and film.
01:35 Early Life.
02:40 Lukow Ghetto
07:45 Deportation
10:04 Cigarette Ally
12:12 Treblinka
14:31 Escaping Treblinka
15:44 On the Run
18:47 Becoming a Partisan
20:37 Starting Over
26:01 Closing credits - Duration
- 00:26:29
- Date
-
released:
2021 October 18
- Locale
-
Lukow,
Poland
Treblinka, Poland
- Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sonia Breslow
- Contributor
-
Narrator:
Michael Berenbaum
Producer: Michael Berenbaum
Contributor: Joseph Polonski
Subject: Joseph Polonski
Director: Ken Winikur
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Documentary films.
- Image Quality
- Mixed
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Escapes. Displaced persons. Emigration and immigration--United States. Jewish resistance. Deportation. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Luków (Lublin)
- Geographic Name
- Silvaki (Poland) Luków (Lublin, Poland : Powiat)
- Personal Name
- Polonski, Joseph.
- Corporate Name
- Treblinka (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- Sonia Breslow donated this film to the United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem in September 2022.
- Film Source
- Ms. Sonia Breslow
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:22:52
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn737604
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