Oral history interview with Egmont Fortun
Extent and Medium
3 sound cassettes (60 min.),
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 Egmont Fortun in Germany on August 10, 2001. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in February 2002.
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
- Fortun, Egmont.
- Egmont Fortun
Corporate Bodies
- Nazi Party
- Hitler Youth
- Germany. Heer
Subjects
- Egypt.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Germany.
- Holocaust survivors--Germany.
- Naples (Italy)
- Bamberg (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- Arnstadt (Germany)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa, North.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Soviet Union.
- Tunisia.
Genre
- Oral History