Recollections of a Polish Holocaust survivor
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Mieczyslaw P. Makowski
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Mr. Makowski's memoir entitled "A digest of memoirs of a Polish Holocaust survivor," carries the date 05 Feb. 1992 on its first page of text. He submitted the original typescript to John Gmerek of the Kosciuszko Foundation, and in Mar. 1992 Mr. Gmerek sent it to Pamela Kidron of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum I.D. Project, together with accompanying photographs. That same month, Ms. Kidron passed on the memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, retaining a copy for her department's files and apparently also retaining the four photographs. Mr. Makowski subsequently signed a Donor Agreement with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for his memoir.
Scope and Content
Contains information about the early life of Mieczyslaw Paul Makowski (a Polish Christian) in Poland; his participation in the Polish resistance against the German occupiers; his incarceration in Pawiak Prison, Majdanek, Buchenwald, and Flossenbürg; his experiences on a death march from Flossenbürg; his liberation; and his subsequent life in the United States.
People
- Makowski, Mieczyslaw, 1933-
Corporate Bodies
- International Refugee Organization
- Germany. Gestapo
- Pawiak (Prison)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- National Catholic Welfare Conference
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Subjects
- Crematoriums.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Prisoners.
- Jehovah's Witnesses--Nazi persecution.
- Concentration camps.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Forced Labor.
- Repatriation.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Kapos.
- Refugees.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Death marches.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Guerrillas--Poland.
- Poles--Crimes against.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document