Oral history interview with Joseph Siekierka and Chana Siekierka
Extent and Medium
2 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Biographical History
The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Joseph and Chana Siekierka on April 18, 1983. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in July 2007.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties
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
People
- Siekierka, Chana.
- Siekierka, Joseph.
- Joseph Siekierka
- Chana Siekierka
Corporate Bodies
- Monowitz (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Leipzig-Thekla (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Death marches.
- Death march survivors.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Chicago (Ill.)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Forced labor--Germany.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Poland--Warsaw.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
Genre
- Oral History
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