Testimony of Józef Kuźba: Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg b. Berlin. As remains in our memory. Materials, experiences, comments. Relacja Józefa Kuźba: Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg b. Berlin. Jaki pozostal w naszej pamięci. Materialy, przeżycia, komentarze

Józef Kuźba was born in what is now the province of Pomerania, Poland, in August 1916, and died on 30 October, 2012. Trained as a teacher, and therefore belonging to the Polish intelligentsia, he found himself to be part of a group that was targeted for extermination immediately following the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Because of this, he escaped to Slovakia in 1940, where he was subsequently captured and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin. While imprisoned there for five years, he worked in the brickyard. In early 1945 he was among those prisoners who were sent on a death march, from which he was liberated by the U.S. Army in May of that year. He returned to Poland, where after the war he worked as an economist. During retirement he was a social worker, devoting himself mainly to working with German youth, and in particular working on causes related to Polish-German reconciliation. A lengthy (7 hours, 15 minutes) oral history interview was conducted with Józef Kuźba, which is available in the Archives of the Oral History Centre KARTA and the Meeting House with History in Warsaw ( track number: AHM_1122). For more information: http: // .fpnp.pl / witnesses / jozef-kuzba.html; http://www.asf-ev.de/de/einblicke/weggefaehrt-innen/jozef-kuzba-reden-ist-meine-pflicht.html).

Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP, Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation).The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2014.