Oral history interview with Wiktoria Sałęga
Extent and Medium
2 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Creator(s)
- Michal Cichy
- Michal Sobelman
Biographical History
This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak. Michal Sobelman and Michal Cichy conducted the interview with Wiktoria Sałęga in Trawniki, Poland on March 15, 1998, for the Polish Witnesses to the Holocaust Project.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview on November 13, 1998.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
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
- Sałęga, Wiktoria.
- Wiktoria Sałęga
- Michal Sobelman
- Michal Cichy
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Poland.
- Gas chambers--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Trawniki (Lublin, Poland)
- Mass murder--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Grave robbing--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Poland.
- Theft--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Genre
- Oral History