Pivnik, Samuel (Oral history)

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Object description

Polish Jewish inmate in Będzin Ghetto, Poland, 7/1940-8/1943; inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp and Fürstengrube Subcamp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland, 8/1943-1/1945 and Nordhausen Subcamp, Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, Germany, 1/1945-4/1945; survivor of sinking of SS Cap Arcona in Lübeck Bay, Germany, 3/5/1945

Content description

REEL 1 Background in Będzin, Poland, 1926-1939: family; education. Aspects of German invasion of Poland, 9/1939: start of German invasion, 1/9/1939; German attack on town; anti-Semitism pre-1939; reactions to arrival of Germans, 9/1939. Aspects of period as child in Będzin, Poland, 1939-1940: fate of Jews in Polish Army captured by Germans; degree of Polish collaboration with Germans; anti-Semitic effect of religious services on Poles; restrictions on Jewish civilians; creation of German administration of area; separation of Polish and Jewish communities. REEL 2 Continues: Recollections of period as inmate in Bedzin Ghetto in Poland, 7/1940-8/1943: creation of German owned industries; selection of Jews for deportation; how Polish friend remained silent about his brother who worked at same site in Germany; character of his German foreman; arrival of German settlers; formation of ghetto, 7/1940; role of Jewish Administration; German round ups of inmates; question of resistance in ghetto; law and order; restrictions on religious practice. REEL 3 Continues: removal from ghetto, 6/8/1943. Aspects of period as inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland, 8/1943-1/1944: selection procedure on arrival in camp, 8/1943; processing of inmates; nature of work; arrival of other transports; execution of Polish partisans; treatment of German Jews transported from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp; arrival of transport from Warsaw Ghetto; contracting typhoid and removal to quarantine area in Block 9. Aspects of period as inmate in Fürstengrube Subcamp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland, 1/1944-1/1945: removal to camp, 1/1944. REEL 4 Continues: prior recollection of resistance in Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp; working routine; stories illustrating treatment of inmates by Germans; evacuation of camp and march to Gleiwitz, 19/1/1945. Aspects of train journey from Gleiwitz to Nordhausen Subcamp, Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, Germany, 1/1945: delayed leaving of train; bread thrown to prisoners by Czech civilians; acts of cannibalism; obtaining bread and collecting snow to drink. Aspects of period as inmate in Nordhausen Subcamp, Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp, Germany, 1/1944-4/1945: arrival in camp, 23/1/1945; description of camp. REEL 5 Continues: rations; allocation to subcamp; travelling aboard barge towards Lübeck, 4/1945. Aspects of bombing and sinking of SS Cap Arcona in the Lübeck Bay, Germany, 3/5/1945: embarkation on ship, 2/5/1945; bombing of ship by Royal Air Force Hawker Typhoons; escape from sinking ship; treatment in barracks at Neustadt in Holstein; attitude towards attack on SS Cap Arcona by Royal Air Force. Reflections of Holocaust experiences, 1939-1945: variation of treatment of Jews of different nationalities by Germans; attitude of Poles in Będzin watching Jewish population departing for concentration camps; belief that Germans would not win the war; attitude towards survival; relations between concentration camp inmates; attitude towards Germans. REEL 6 Continues: attitude towards notion of revenge; belief that perpetrators should be punished.

Object Details

Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), Interwar (content), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (recorder)
Pivnik, Samuel (interviewee/speaker)
Production date: 1985-08-15
Dimensions: whole: Duration 155, Number Of Items 6
Catalogue number: 8952

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Pivnik, Samuel
Ghetto, Będzin, Poland
German Concentration Camp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Poland
German Concentration Camp, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Subcamp, Fürstengrube, Poland
German Concentration Camp, Mittelbau-Dora, Germany
German Concentration Camp, Mittelbau-Dora, Subcamp, Nordhausen, Germany
German Merchant Marine, SS Cap Arcona, Passenger Vessel/Prison Ship, (1927)
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Poland
Będzin, Kielce Voivodeship, Poland
Germany
Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany
Nordhausen, Thuringia, Germany
Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Lübeck Bay, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Neustadt in Holstein, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Associated themes

Nazi Europe, 1933-1945
Holocaust

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