Charles Kotkowsky papers
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Charles Kotkowsky
Biographical History
Charles Kotkowsky is a native of Piotrków, Poland. He participated in underground resistance while living in the Piotrków ghetto and was a victim of slave labor there. He was deported to Buchenwald and later transferred to Flossenbürg. He managed to escape his German captors during a railroad transport through Czechoslovakia.
Archival History
Mr. Charles Kotkowsky
Acquisition
Source of acquisition is Charles Kotkowsky via Coralie Farlee. donated in Dec. 1989. They were transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Jan. 1990.
Scope and Content
Includes articles, essays, and publications concerning the Piotrków Trybunalski Jewish community in Canada, the Jewish Fighting Organization, and the plight of children in the ghettos and camps. Also included is “Remnants: Memoirs of a Survivor,” a testimony of Holocaust survival by Charles Kotkowsky. The testimony describes Kotkowsky’s life in the Piotrków ghetto, his participation in an underground resistance movement, his imprisonment in two concentration camps, and his escape from a railroad transport.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Feiner, Leon.
- Berezowski, Mikolaj.
- Tenenberg, Zalman.
- Vogt.
- Miedzyrzecki, Feigele Peltel.
- Kotkowsky, Faywel.
- Kotkowsky, Charles.
- Zukierman, Itzhak.
- Goldstein, Bernard, 1889-
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Yidisher Arbeter-Bund in Russland, Lite, un Poiln
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Jewish Combat Organization (Poland)
- Treblinka (Concentration camp)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- AK-Home Army (Poland)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jews--Poland.
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Piotrków Trybunalski.
- Kdyne (Czech Republic)
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Czestochowa.
- Uprisings.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Forced migration--Poland.
- Forced labor.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Jews--Relocation--Poland.
- Jewish councils.
- Zionism--Associations, institutions, etc.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document