Mój dom jest w Suchedniowie. Jakub Berkman opowiada o losach rodziny w latach Zagłady

INTERVIEWEE: Jakub Berkman INTERVIEWEE’S BIOGRAPHY AND DETAILED THEMES DEVELOPMENT: https://sztetl.org.pl/en/oral-history... INTERVIEWER: Klara Jackl OPERATOR: Przemysław Jaczewski RECORDING DATE: 19th June 2017 RECORDING COPYRIGHT: POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews THE MOST IMPORTANT THEMES: 00:00:06 – The trauma of war, the need to remember the Shoah. 00:10:18 – The need to talk about World War II and anti-Semitism. 00:16:26 – Contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, migration crisis. 00:21:45 – Shoah. 00:26:00 – Views on contemporary terrorism. 00:30:55 – Information on the interviewee’s family, education as the first step towards the assimilation of the interviewee's family. 00:38:33 – Situation of Polish Jews before the war, knowledge of languages. 00:42:04 – The interviewee’s grandfather’s factory, the interviewee’s great-grandfather on his mother’s side, the grandfather on his mother’s side. 00:56:26 – Meeting of the interviewee’s parents, father’s siblings, mother’s siblings. 01:00:00 – Father’s education. 01:03:28 – Parents’ marriage, the place of residence of the family, the cuisine in the interviewee's home, Jewish holidays in the interviewee’s home. 01:08:30 – Learning at a Jewish school, a letter to an aunt, no sense of difference between Jews and Poles, no experience of anti-Semitism before 1939. 01:12:34 – Memories from school. 01:14:56 – The economic situation of the family, visiting Cracow and the Wawel castle in August 1939. 01:17:32 – The outbreak of war, escape to the East, return to Suchedniów and detention by the Germans, beating of an uncle. 01:24:42 – Repressions against Jews. 01:25:50 – Decision to leave for Brest, return of father and grandfather to Suchedniów. 01:29:06 – Information about the Shoah, ghetto in Suchedniów. 01:31:27 – Plans to rescue the family, acquaintance with Dr. Witold Poziomski and his help. 01:34:11 – Relocation of family members in the homes of Polish families, payment for hiding, security measures. 01:38:37 – Leopold von Krauze, plans to hide the parents., 01:43:51 – Deportation to the Majdanek camp, hiding the parents in the basement and the sacrifice of the grandparents, hiding the parents with Leopold von Krauze. 01:53:13 – Placing the interviewee and his sister in hiding, false documents, saying goodbye to the grandfather. 01:59:08 – Circumcision of the interviewee's grandson, giving names according to the Jewish tradition. 02:03:02 – Arrival in Warsaw with his sister, black-mailers. 02:05:24 – Arrival at the church of the Holy Cross and meeting Father Cybulski, baptism. 02:10:00 – Stay in a monastery in Zielonka, stay with a teacher in Warsaw, arrival of Leopold von Krauze. 02:15:17 – Journey from Warsaw to Suchedniów. 02:18:57 – Living with Leopold von Krauze, the hideout in the attic. 02:25:50 – Learning in secret. 02:27:51 – Entering adulthood and receiving arsenic from his father. 02:30:09 – A threat from soldiers, the courage of Helena von Krauze. 02:35:15 – Visits to Poland after 1992, finding the graves of Leopold and Helena von Krauze. 02:40:28 – Help provided by Wacław Pajek, living with the Pajek family, views on the commemoration of those who rescued Jews during the war, reflection on the current situation of Jews. 02:49:09 – Visits to Suchedniów, fate of the interviewee’s sister, family members who survived the Shoah. Check out our oral history collection: https://sztetl.org.pl/en/oral-history Subscribe to our channel:    / @historiamowionapolin   Check out POLIN Museum’s other channels: POLIN Museum:    / mhzp2013   Virtual Shtetl (history and culture of the Polish Jews):    / wirtualnysztetl   Polish Righteous (stories of Polish Righteous):    / polscysprawiedliwi   Contact: [email protected]