Oral history interview with Wolf-Heinrich von Finckenstein
Extent and Medium
3 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 Wolf-Heinrich von Finckenstein in Germany, on May 7, 2004 and May 11, 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
- Wolf-Heinrich von Finckenstein
- Rosalyn Manowitz
- Finckenstein, Wolf-Heinrich von.
Corporate Bodies
- Hitler Youth
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.
- Prisoner-of-war camps--Ukraine--Kyïv.
- Tank crews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Eastern Front.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Germany.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Soviet Union.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- Silesia.
Genre
- Oral History