Charles Kotkowsky papers
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Charles Kotkowsky
Biographical History
Charles Kotkowsky is a native of Piotrków, Poland. He participated in underground resistance while living in the Piotrków ghetto and was a victim of slave labor there. He was deported to Buchenwald and later transferred to Flossenbürg. He managed to escape his German captors during a railroad transport through Czechoslovakia.
Archival History
Mr. Charles Kotkowsky
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is Charles Kotkowsky via Coralie Farlee. donated in Dec. 1989. They were transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Jan. 1990.
Scope and Content
Includes articles, essays, and publications concerning the Piotrków Trybunalski Jewish community in Canada, the Jewish Fighting Organization, and the plight of children in the ghettos and camps. Also included is “Remnants: Memoirs of a Survivor,” a testimony of Holocaust survival by Charles Kotkowsky. The testimony describes Kotkowsky’s life in the Piotrków ghetto, his participation in an underground resistance movement, his imprisonment in two concentration camps, and his escape from a railroad transport.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Vogt.
- Kotkowsky, Charles.
- Kotkowsky, Faywel.
- Zukierman, Itzhak.
- Miedzyrzecki, Feigele Peltel.
- Feiner, Leon.
- Tenenberg, Zalman.
- Berezowski, Mikolaj.
- Goldstein, Bernard, 1889-
Corporate Bodies
- Jewish Combat Organization (Poland)
- Yidisher Arbeter-Bund in Russland, Lite, un Poiln
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Treblinka (Concentration camp)
- AK-Home Army (Poland)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Forced labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Relocation--Poland.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
- Uprisings.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Piotrków Trybunalski.
- Kdyne (Czech Republic)
- Forced migration--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Jewish councils.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Zionism--Associations, institutions, etc.
- Jews--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Czestochowa.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document