Josefa Krajewska collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Josefa Krajewska
Scope and Content
Testimony, 42 pages, handwritten in Polish, with English translated summary. Krajewska, living in Belgium in 1993, saw an article about events that took place in her home town of Olobok in 1943, when a planned delivery of weapons to Polish partisans (Armia Krajowa) from the Polish government-in-exile in London was discovered and aborted by German SS, who took revenge on villagers. Includes English and Polish texts, news clippings and snapshots of present-day memorial.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document