Oral history interview with Janez Žmavc
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
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. Nathan Beyrak, Project Director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Janez Žmavc on February 1, 2009 as part of the Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Slovenia.
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.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Žmavc, Janez.
- Janez Žmavc
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Kassel (Germany)
- Slovenia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
- Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Austria.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Slovenia.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovenian.
- Frohnleiten (Austria)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Slovenia.
- Celje (Slovenia)
- Germanization--Slovenia.
- Gornji Grad (Slovenia)
- Slovenia--History--1918-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--War work--Red Cross.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Slovenian.
- Famine--Slovenia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Yugoslavia.
Genre
- Oral History