Oral history interview with Henry Oertelt
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The interview with Henry Oertelt was conducted in June 1982 by the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, in conjunction with a summer teacher's workshop taught at the school. The video contains a spoken testimony in front of an audience followed by a question and answer session filmed in the university's TV studio. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the testimony in October 1993.
Archival History
University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Henry A. Oertelt
- Oertelt, Henry A.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Flossenbürg (Germany)
- Poland.
- Kristallnacht, 1938--Germany--Berlin.
- Jews--Germany--Berlin.
- Forced labor.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Death marches.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Book burning--Germany.
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Death march survivors.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Road construction industry.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
Genre
- Oral History
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