Oral history interview with Anton Šercer
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (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 Anton Šercer on February 5, 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
- Šercer, Anton.
- Anton Šercer
Corporate Bodies
- Croatian Home Guard
- Germany. Gestapo
- Yugoslav People’s Army
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Slovenia--History--1918-1945.
- Italy--Armed Forces.
- Gornji Grad (Slovenia)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Death marches.
- Kočevje (Slovenia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Slovenian.
- Altenburg (Germany : Landkreis)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Yugoslavia.
- Death march survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovenia.
- Dolga Vas (Kočevje, Slovenia)
- Guerrillas--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovenia.
- Mass murder--Germany.
- Poland.
- Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- Massacres--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage.
- Propaganda--Slovenia.
- Military interrogation--Poland.
- Forced labor--Poland.
- Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovenian.
- Slovenia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
Genre
- Oral History