Charles Kotkowsky collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
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
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Charles Kotkowsky.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a photograph and 3 theater programs. The photograph shows Charles Kotkowsky playing the role of Adolf Hitler in a theater production entitled "Hitler's Last Night." The programs include one for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of "Hitler's Last Night," written and produced by Charles Kotkowsky; and two for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of "Tovia, the Milkman," by Shalom Aleichem, one in English and one in Yiddish.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is in the order in which received
People
- Kotkowsky, Charles.
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.
Subjects
- Theatrical productions.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Theater programs.