Overview
- Interview Summary
- The interview begins with Michalina (Mickey) Oskwarek providing her testimony to her grandson Joshua Oskwarek. At 01:20:52 Stanley Joseph Oskwarek begins his testimony.
Joshua Oskwarek's grandparents Stanley Joseph Oskwarek and Michalina Oskwarek grew up near Krakow Poland right before WWII. They were not Jewish, but involved with the Jewish community. They provide detailed information about how their Jewish friends were taken away by the Germans and they discuss their lives under German occupation. Interestingly, Stanley Oskwarek was born in Omaha Nebraska, but returned to Poland in 1922. - Interviewee
- Stanley J. Oskwarek
Michalina Oskwarek - Interviewer
- Joshua Oskwarek
- Date
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interview:
2002
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joshua Oskwarek
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 digital file : MP4.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Women--Personal narratives. Men--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish. World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories. Smuggling--Poland. Hiding places--Poland.
- Geographic Name
- Tarnów (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland)
- Personal Name
- Oskwarek, Stanley. Oskwarek, Michalina.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Joshua Oskwarek donated his grandparent's interviews to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in December 2022.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-03-14 15:25:14
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