Oral history interview with Ruprecht von Poncet
Extent and Medium
5 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 Ruprecht von Poncet in Germany on May 9, 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
- Ruprecht von Poncet
- Poncet, Ruprecht von.
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Deutscher Volkssturm
- Germany. Kriegsmarine
- Unternehmen Werwolf
- Nazi Party
- Hitler Youth
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Germany.
- Tschernitz (Germany)
- Germany.
- Groß Kölzig (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Germany.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- Guben (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
Genre
- Oral History