Oral history interview with Abraham Zwirek
Extent and Medium
3 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Biographical History
The interview was conducted by the Imperial War Museum as part of their retrospective oral history interview program. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of the interview with Abraham Zwirek from the Imperial War Museum in February 1995.
Archival History
Imperial War Museum
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Permission to copy and/or use recordings in any production must be granted by the Imperial War Museums.
People
- Abraham Zwirek
- Zwirek, Abraham, 1926-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jews--Poland--Plock.
- Concentration camp guards.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Jewish police officers--Poland.
- Escapes.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Suchedniów (Poland)
- Holocaust survivors--Great Britain.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Typhoid fever.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Gąbin (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Poland.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
- Antisemitism.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Sabotage.
- Zionists--Poland.
- Smuggling--Poland.
- Forced labor.
- Plock (Poland)
- Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
- Rationing.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Skarzysko-Kamienna (Poland)
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Women concentration camp guards.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Plock.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Oral History
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