Oral history interview with Joseph Wolke
Extent and Medium
4 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Gail Schwartz
Biographical History
Gail Schwartz, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview on April 29, 1996 in Silver Spring, MD. The interview was transfered to the Archives on April 29, 1996.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Wolke, Joseph, 1919-
- Joseph Wolke
- Gail Schwartz
Corporate Bodies
- Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp)
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Red Army (Soviet Union)
Subjects
- Escapes.
- Death march survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Smuggling.
- Mass burials--Poland.
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- Tomaszów Mazowiecki (Poland)
- Judaism--Customs and practices.
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Baltimore (Md.)
- Americanization.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Concentration camp escapes--Poland.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Tomaszów Mazowiecki.
- Forced labor--Poland.
- Starvation.
- Jews--Poland--Tomaszów Mazowiecki.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
- Kraków (Poland)
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History
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