Oral history interview with Gunter Siemeister
Extent and Medium
5 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Maria Nooke
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. The interview was conducted with Gunter Siemeister in Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany on April 27, 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 2001.
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
- Gunter Siemeister
- Siemeister, Gunter.
- Maria Nooke
Corporate Bodies
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Germany. Heer
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Hitler Youth
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Forced labor--Germany.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Holocaust denial--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Belarus--Minsk.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.
- Star of David badges.
- Pogroms--Germany.
- Antisemitism.
- Minsk (Belarus)
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Neuwied (Germany)
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Germany.
Genre
- Oral History