Franciczek N. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Franciczek N., a non-Jew, who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. He recalls his parents hiding a Jewish couple immediately after an attack on a cafe frequented by the Germans; his family's active participation in the Armia Krajowa, Polish Underground; the family decision to keep the couple; the woman attending church with his mother; his father obtaining false papers and employment for the couple; smuggling Jews and others to the Czech border; receiving letters threatening to expose them; staging a mock arrest and trial of the blackmailers with other AK members; ceasing their underground activities due to the danger, including sending the couple elsewhere; observing ghetto conditions from a streetcar; a postwar reunion with the Jewish couple his family hid; and receiving the "Righteous Among the Nations" medal in Israel from Yad Vashem at the initiative of the couple. He discusses his regrets that others they helped did not contact them after the war, and other Poles who helped Jews. He shows photographs and letters from the couple in Israel.
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes
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This testimony is open with permission.
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Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- N., Franciczek, -- 1923-
Corporate Bodies
- Poland. -- Polskie Siły Zbrojne. -- Armia Krajowa.
Subjects
- Postwar experiences.
- False papers.
- Hiding.
- Rescuers.
- Aid by non-Jews.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Poland.
- Jewish ghettos.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- Jews -- Poland -- Kraków.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Polish.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Video tapes.
- Men.
Places
- Kraków ghetto.
- Poland.
- Kraków (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat