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Oral history interview with Julian Kulski

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.238.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0769

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    Oral history interview with Julian Kulski

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    Interview Summary
    Julian Kulski, born on March 3, 1929 in Warsaw, Poland, discusses his prominent family’s background and childhood; his Jewish ancestry, but being considered non-Jewish by the laws of the time; his parents’ personalities and his father’s political views and career; his father’s time as mayor of Warsaw from 1939-1944; the beginning of the war on September 1, 1939; the fall of Warsaw; his father’s arrest and later work with the occupation government; his and his father’s involvement in the underground; living with his former scoutmaster during the war and becoming a soldier in the underground at the age of 13; activities in the underground and his continued training; his arrest by the Gestapo; his time and torture at Pawiak prison; narrowly avoiding transport to Auschwitz; his scoutmaster’s death; his efforts to steal guns from the Germans and the consequences of his actions; being part of the small group in the Żoliborz district who set the Warsaw Uprising in motion on August 1, 1944; the Warsaw Uprising and surrender; his brief time in the Stalag XI-A prisoner-of-war camp in Germany; his arrival in England and admission to the Polish army; not seeing his family until 1960; suffering from PTSD; his difficult relationship with his uncle; being taken in by an aristocratic woman; attending an elite school in Northern Ireland; attending Oxford from 1947 to 1948 to become an architect; leaving for the United States and attending Yale; his marriage and American citizenship; the effects of his experiences; visiting Warsaw later in life; his family’s postwar life in Poland; his final thoughts on freedom; and attending the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.
    Interviewee
    Julian Kulski
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2014 September 25
    Geography
    creation: Washington (D.C.)

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    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 Julian Kulski on September 25, 2014 in Washington, DC.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:44
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