Oral history interview with Dietrich Elsner and Hannelore Elsner
Extent and Medium
8 videocassettes (MiniDV),
6 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Creator(s)
- Rosalyn Manowitz
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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, in association with the Institut fuer Geschichte und Biographie der Fernuniversitaet Hagen, coordinated the interview with Dietrich Elsner and Hannelore Elsner in Germany, on July 19, 2004 and September 30, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in December 2004.
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
- Dietrich Elsner
- Hannelore Elsner
- Rosalyn Manowitz
- Elsner, Dietrich.
- Elsner, Hannelore.
Corporate Bodies
- Monowitz (Concentration camp)
- Hitler Youth
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.
- World War, 1939-1945--War work--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany.
- Halle an der Saale (Germany)
- Forced labor--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Germany.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Prisoner-of-war camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Prisoners of war--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Germany.
Genre
- Oral History