Oral history interview with Kurt Schaefer
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 Kurt Schaefer in Germany on May 25, 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
- Kurt Schaefer
- Schaefer, Kurt.
Corporate Bodies
- Hitler Youth
Subjects
- Germany--Armed Forces.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Germany.
- Jews--Segregation.
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Radio operators.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Forced labor--Germany.
- Sylt (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, German.
- Kiel (Germany)
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Germany.
- Istria (Croatia and Slovenia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.
- Denmark.
Genre
- Oral History