Mojsze Kisielnicki memoir
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Michael Kishel
Biographical History
Michael Kishel, an author and survivor of several camps including Auschwitz, was born in Kaluszyn (Kalushin), Poland.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Mr. Kishel's original handwritten Yiddish account of his father's role in the Kałuszyn Judenrat was prepared in 1946 or 1947; a typewritten Yiddish version was subsequently prepared (date unknown to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), and in 1992 the Museum had an English translation prepared. All three versions are included in this donation, and the first two are originals. Susan Bachrach of the Museum's I.D.Project sent all of the above-described documents to Museum's Archives in Oct. 1992 and Mr. Kishel signed a donor agreement on 08 Nov. 1992.
Scope and Content
Contains information about the German seizure of Kałuszyn, Poland; the establishment of the Kałuszyn Judenrat in November 1939 by Mayor Bumiszcz Plywaczewsky; confiscation of Jewish property in Kałuszyn; general mistreatment of the Jews of Kałuszyn; the special work of Mojsze Kisielnicki as a member of the Kałuszyn Judenrat; disease in the ghetto; and deportation of Kałuszyn Jews to Warsaw; Also included are the names of several Kałuszyn Judenrat officials.
People
- Plywaczewsky, Burmiszcz.
- Kisielnicki, Mojsze.
- Michael Kishel
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Gestapo
Subjects
- Warsaw (Poland)
- Police.
- Jews--Poland--Kałuszyn.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kałuszyn.
- Confiscations.
- Jewish councils.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Deportation.
- Antisemitism.
- Kałuszyn (Warsaw, Poland)
- Diseases.
- Autobiography.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.