Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986

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Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986

1939-1986

https://collections.ushmm.org/findingaids/1992.A.0034.1_01_fnd_en.pdf

Consists of musical and non-musical sound recordings, microfilms, correspondence, music scores and notation, personal narratives, small art works, poems, draft manuscripts, research notes, photoprints and photonegatives, and various other documents compiled by Aleksander Kulisiewicz from ca. 1945 until the time of his death in 1982. The materials in the collection relate to a wide variety of Holocaust and concentration camps. It was Kulisiewicz's intent to gather the materials in order to support his research while compiling an anthology of concentration camp music and poetry. The collection contains portions of the draft version of the anthology.

55 linear ft. ; 16 mm.41 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.1270 microfiche ; 16 mm.50 sound cassettes.201 sound tape reels.

eng, Latn

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 11616300

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel

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Kulisiewicz, Krzysztof.

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Kulisiewicz, Aleksander Tytus, 1918-1982

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Aleksander (Alexander) Kulisiewicz (1918-1982) was born in Kraków, Poland in 1918. He was a law student in German-occupied Poland when, in October 1939, he was denounced for antifascist writings, arrested by the Gestapo, and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin. An amateur singer and songwriter, Kulisiewicz composed 54 songs during more than five years of imprisonment at Sachsenhausen. After Russian troops liberated the camp on May 2, 1945, he remembered his songs, as well a...