Dossier 2 - Oral history interview with Irena Bakowska

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Oral history interview with Irena Bakowska

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CA ON00425 F001-1-1-2

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  • 1983 (Création/Production)
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    Bakowska, Irena

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1 folder of textual records
2 audio cassettes (1 hr. 40 min.)

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Irena was born as Irena Borman in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, to Jan Bakowski and Helena Dobrejcer, who were both dentists. She was raised and educated in Warsaw until the war interrupted her high school education. To hide her Jewish identity, she assumed the name of Irena Bakowska throughout the war. Irena received her Lyceum education in an underground school in Warsaw and earned her Certificate of Maturity (i.e., Baccalaureate degree) In 1941. From 1941 to 1942, she studied in the underground medical school in the Warsaw ghetto as a medical student. During the massive deportations she and her family managed to get out of the ghetto and went to Zakrzowek, a village in Lublin. In January 1943, she was deported to a slave labour on a German farm in Lorraine. Surviving the war, Irena received education in France as a lawyer, and then migrated to the United States in 1955, where she continued her studies in law and as a librarian. Irena spent the last two decades of her professional career as a professor of Law and Law Librarian at Queen's University, Faculty of Law, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of oral history interview with Irena Bakowska conducted by Charles Roland in Kingston, Ontario on February 1st, 1983.
Topics cover Irena’s early life, education and family in Warsaw prior to the Second World War, the bombing of Warsaw and the persecution of Warsaw Jews before their imprisonment in the ghetto and thereafter, experience of receiving Lyceum education in an underground school in Warsaw, learning conditions and social life in the Warsaw ghetto underground medical school, life and living conditions in the Warsaw ghetto, evacuation from the Warsaw ghetto, life in hiding in Zakrzowek in 1942, experience in the labour camp in Germany in 1943, discussions about the dignity of the suffering Jews and reflections on the war.

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