Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Carolyn Ellis
Publication Date
10-14-2009
Date
2009-07-01
Abstract
This is an oral history interview with Holocaust survivor Jerry Rawicki. Rawicki was born in Poland in 1927 and lived with his family in P?ock until 1941 when the city's Jews were expelled. Rawicki and his mother and sisters went to Bodzentyn, where they lived for a year and a half. In 1942 he and his elder sister went to Warsaw, where their father had been living in the Warsaw Ghetto. Rawicki joined various work groups to get in and out of the ghetto, smuggling and running errands, while his sister left the ghetto and posed as a gentile until the war ended. Rawicki escaped when the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began in April 1943, and spent several weeks hiding in various parts of the city. During this time, he was assisted by a young gentile man, who gave him food and a place to sleep. Rawicki describes his experiences in Bodzentyn and the Warsaw Ghetto, in Warsaw after leaving the ghetto, and after liberation.
Keywords
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives, Holocaust survivors--Interviews, Holocaust survivors--Florida, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, History--Warsaw (Poland)--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943
Extent
03:12:28; 53 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Płock (Poland); Hamburg (Germany); Warsaw (Poland); East Prussia (Poland and Russia); Soldau (Poland); Bodzentyn (Poland); Bielany (Warsaw, Poland); Warsaw (Poland); Łódź (Poland : Voivodeship) (Poland : Voivodeship)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
F60-00003
Recommended Citation
Rawicki, Jerry, "Jerry Rawicki Oral History Interview" (2009). Holocaust Survivors Oral History Project. 24.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/holocaust_OH/24
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