Oral history interview with August Kowalczyk
Extent and Medium
5 videocasettes (Betacam SP), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
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. The interview was conducted with August Kowalczyk in Warsaw, Poland, on July 4, 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
- Kowalczyk, August, 1921-
- August Kowalczyk
Corporate Bodies
- AK-Home Army (Poland)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Jews--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Hiding places--Poland.
- Gas chambers--Poland.
- Concentration camp escapes--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Czestochowa (Poland)
Genre
- Oral History