Wacław Głouszek papers
Extent and Medium
folders
8
Creator(s)
- Waclaw Glouszek
Biographical History
Waclaw Glouszek was born in 1909 in Kowel, Poland (Kovel, Ukraine) to Wilhelm and Katarzyna Glouszek. He was educated in Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania). In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In 1942, Waclaw was arrested by the Gestapo in Krakow as a non-Jewish political prisoner. He was sent to Monowitz (Auschwitz III) concentration camp, where he played in the camp orchestra. In January 1945, Woclaw was transferred to Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp. He was later sent to Bergen-Belsen where he was liberated in April 1945 by British forces. After the war, he settled in Wałbrzych and became a high school director. Waclaw, 97, passed away in 1996.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Iwona Bonacia
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Funding Note: The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded Save Their Stories campaign.
Iwona Bonacia donated her father’s papers, the Wacław Głouszek papers, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998.
Scope and Content
The Wacław Głouszek papers consist of sheet music from Dora-Mittelbau, lyrics to patriotic and religious Polish songs, two diaries describing Głouszek’s camp, transport, and liberation experiences and including partial lists of fellow prisoners, a 1968 letter describing Głouszek’s efforts to save weak and emaciated Jewish prisoners from selection for the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Głouszek’s identification photograph from Auschwitz, four copy prints of Bergen-Belsen after liberation, and one copy print of General Eisenhower visiting Ohrdruf after liberation.
System of Arrangement
The Wacław Głouszek papers are arranged as three series: I. Camp items, approximately 1942-1945, II. Personal narratives, approximately 1945-1968, III. Photographs, approximately 1942-1945
People
- Waclaw Glouszek
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Polish people--Ukraine--Kovel’.
- Political prisoners--Germany.
- Political prisoners--Poland.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Genre
- Diaries.
- Photographs.
- Document