Oral history interview with Joseph Wolke
Extent and Medium
4 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Gail Schwartz
Biographical History
Gail Schwartz, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview on April 29, 1996 in Silver Spring, MD. The interview was transfered to the Archives on April 29, 1996.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Wolke, Joseph, 1919-
- Gail Schwartz
- Joseph Wolke
Corporate Bodies
- Red Army (Soviet Union)
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Starvation.
- Smuggling.
- Mass burials--Poland.
- Judaism--Customs and practices.
- Jews--Poland--Tomaszów Mazowiecki.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Tomaszów Mazowiecki.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Forced labor--Poland.
- Escapes.
- Death march survivors.
- Concentration camp escapes--Poland.
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- Americanization.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Kraków (Poland)
- Baltimore (Md.)
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History
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