Charles Kotkowsky collection

Identifier
irn514425
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.5
  • RG-10.390
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Charles Kotkowsky is a native of Piotrków, Poland. He participated in underground resistance while living in the Piotrków ghetto and was a victim of slave labor there. He was deported to Buchenwald and later transferred to Flossenbürg. He managed to escape his German captors during a railroad transport through Czechoslovakia.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Charles Kotkowsky.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a photograph and 3 theater programs. The photograph shows Charles Kotkowsky playing the role of Adolf Hitler in a theater production entitled "Hitler's Last Night." The programs include one for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of "Hitler's Last Night," written and produced by Charles Kotkowsky; and two for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of "Tovia, the Milkman," by Shalom Aleichem, one in English and one in Yiddish.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is in the order in which received

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Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.