Oral history interview with Walter Taus
Extent and Medium
1 digital files, MPEG-2
Creator(s)
- Boris Neusius
- Wendy Lower Ph.D.
Biographical History
This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. Wendy Lower, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, coordinated the interview with Walter Taus in Germany on July 14, 2011. The interview was received by the Museum's Oral History Branch in 2012.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Boris Neusius
- Walter Taus
- Wendy Lower Ph.D.
- Taus, Walter.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Concentration camp escapes--Poland.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic--Personal narratives.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- Forced labor--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration Camps--Czech Republic.
- Munich (Germany)
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Mass murder--Poland.
- Jews--Czech Republic--Uherský Brod.
- Uherský Brod (Czech Republic)
- Warsaw (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Czech.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Massacres--Germany.
Genre
- Oral History