Charles Kotkowsky collection

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Charles Kotkowsky collection 

folder 1 

The collection consists of a photograph and 3 theater programs. The photograph shows Charles Kotkowsky playing the role of Adolf Hitler in a theater production entitled"Hitler's Last Night" The programs include one for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of"Hitler's Last Night" written and produced by Charles Kotkowsky; and two for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of"Tovia, the Milkman" by Shalom Aleichem, one in English and one in Yiddish. 

Arrangement is in the order in which received 

Charles Kotkowsky is a native of Piotrków, Poland. He participated in underground resistance while living in the Piotrków ghetto and was a victim of slave labor there. He was deported to Buchenwald and later transferred to Flossenbürg. He managed to escape his German captors during a railroad transport through Czechoslovakia.