Jan Gorecki papers
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Jan Gorecki
Biographical History
Jan Gorecki was born in 1912 in Borucin, Poland (Kujawsko-Pomeranian). He and his wife, Zofia Radzinksa (b. 1923), were Polish Catholics, and Jan was a conscripted laborer in Nazi Germany. Their son Stanislaw (Stanley) was born in 1944 in Braunschweig, Germany. The family immigrated to the United States in 1950.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Stan Gorecki.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Stan Gorecki.
Scope and Content
The Jan Gorecki papers consist of four identification cards documenting Jan Gorecki’s status as a stateless conscripted Polish laborer in Germany, former prisoner of war, member of the Polish Combatants Association, and member of Catholic Caritas for Poles in the British Zone. The papers also include an International Refugee Organization processing card and a World Health Organization vaccination certificate for Gorecki’s son, Stanislaw.
System of Arrangement
The Jan Gorecki papers are arranged as a single series.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Braunschweig (Germany)
- Borucin (Kujawsko-Pomeranian, Poland)
Genre
- Document