Tadeusz sobolewicz biography template

Overview

Interview Summary

Tadeusz Sobolewicz, born underneath Pozńan, Polska in 1923, discusses bordering on the underground; his cut short and dedicate to Stockade in 1941; work surroundings in Auschwitz; witnessing a selection indicate Jewish prisoners; and his transfer foresee Buchenwald service other spacing camps.

Interviewee

Tadeusz Sobolewicz

Interviewer

Piotr Setkiewicz

Date

interview:  1998 July 10

Credit Line

United States Holocaust Marker Museum Solicitation, courtesy comprehend the Jeff and Mug Herr Foundation

Physical Details

Language

Polish

Extent

3 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, aspect ; 1/2 in..

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Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term

World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Polish.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.Gas chambers--Poland.Jews--Persecutions--Poland.World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.Concentration campingground inmates--Selection process.Prisoners of war--Poland.Men--Personal narratives.

Geographic Name

Poznań (Poland)Polan

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Auschwitz survivors mark camp's liberation

Dozens of survivors marked the 64th anniversary of the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz by remembering the Nazi death camp's horrors and celebrating the acts of humanity or random chance that kept them alive.

More than 1 million people, mostly Jews, died in Auschwitz's gas chambers or through forced labor, disease or starvation. The anniversary of its liberation has been established as an annual Holocaust remembrance day by the United Nations.

Bronislawa Horowitz-Karakulska, 78, said Tuesday that she credited her survival to destiny — and to Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist whose story was told in Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List." He shielded more than 1,000 Jews from Nazi camps by hiring them to work in his factories.

"The fact that I am alive — for this I thank Oskar Schindler and the fact that he was able to get me and 300 women out of here," Horowitz-Karakulska said, speaking to a group of high-school students in a school gymnasium in the southern Polish town of Oswiecim — which the German occupiers called Auschwitz.

Survivor Tadeusz Sobolewicz, 85, accused Germany's younger generations of forgetting about the horrors their country inflicted, and misrepresenting history by playing up their own suffering.

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Auschwitz survivors about the IYMC

The special atmosphere of the our Centre has been created by former KL Auschwitz prisoners, who supported the idea of creating the IYMC, and who give unquestionable legitimacy to its pedagogical activities. It was they who exerted the greatest influence on the shape and form of the House's model projects. The IYMC is above all a place where young people meet with Witnesses of History and their testimonies. We pride ourselves on the friendship that they have bestowed upon us, and our cooperation with them is not limited only to organizing meetings with young people. Based on their fate, we prepare didactic activities: seminars and workshops, as well as publications.

WILHELM BRASSE/ 1917-2012 /

KL Auschwitz Concentration Camp prisoner (camp number 3444). In 1939, he refused to sign the Volksliste and in 1940 he was sent to the concentration camp where he worked as a photographer, taking photos of newly arrived prisoners, and photographing the victims of SS doctor Josef Mengele's criminal experiments.

I have a book at home in Żywiec, a gift from my grandfather, “Weltgeschichte,” the Leipzig edition from 1926. In it, I read that the then rulers of Europe, the French and Germans, thought about aunited Europe. During my talks