Józef V. Czarski collection

Józef V. Czarski collection 

Józef V. Czarski collection 

folder 1 

The collection consists of a curriculum vitae and short story of Victor Penzer, originally of Kraków, Poland, written under the name of Józef Czarski, his false identity used when he was in the Resistance in Poland during the Holocaust. The curriculum vitae is a brief narrative describing Victor’s prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences, including his deportation to Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), the death march to Mauthausen, and his liberation at Gunskirchen in May 1945. The short story"Schillinger and the Rabbi" describes a guard at Auschwitz II assaulting Jewish prisoners after they captured a hare. A version of this story appears in Victor’s memoir “Dlaczego? Warum? Why?”, which was also published under the name Józef Czarski. 

The collection is arranged as a single folder