Jadwiga Maurer--Endacott Society Interview2001-11-29 Jadwiga Maurer, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas from 1970-2001, describes her childhood as part of a Jewish family in central Poland during the 1930s. She discusses how her whole family survived the Holocaust by hiding and using fake papers. She recounts living in the American zone of Germany before moving to America and working at Berkley University. The latter part of the interview deals with her time spent in the Slovak language department at KU. She describes how the modest number of women at KU affected her time there.Maurer, JadwigaIntervieweeiveBatson, JudyInterviewerivr0_wact6otxku-endacott:127https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-endacott/127CT 556Slavic languagesSlavic literaturesWorld War (1939-1945)Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Maurer, Jadwiga, 1931-2012University of KansasOral historyengOral historyaudio/mpegreformatted digitalsound recording-nonmusicalTranscript of Jadwiga Maurer--Endacott Society Interviewelectronicapplication/pdftextEndacott Society Oral History CollectionUniversity of KansasUniversity of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research LibraryThis work is shared under Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)ku-endacott_127_MODS.xmlMODS record generated from a local descriptive records. Processed, with additional values/elements added by Digital Initiatives, KU Libraries.eng2019-02