Oral history interview with Jacob Widawski
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette,
Creator(s)
- Pierre Lang
Biographical History
The Australian Institute of Holocaust Studies conducted the interview with Jacob Widawski for the Twelfth Hour Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in April 2006 from the State Library of New South Wales where the collection is housed.
Archival History
Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
People
- Jacob Widawski
- Pierre Lang
- Widawski, Jacob, 1921-
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Australia--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Austria.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Poland.
- Jews--Poland--Wieruszów (Łódź)
- Forced labor.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Wieruszów (Łódź, Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Holocaust survivors--Australia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
Genre
- Oral History