Oral history interview with Norbert Wollheim

Identifier
irn505585
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0447.32
  • RG-50.042.0032
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn505585

Extent and Medium

4 film reels, color ; 16 mm

7 sound tape reels, analog, mono ; 7 in.

3 videocassette (D2), sound, color ; 3/4 in.

Creator(s)

  • Sandra Bradley

Biographical History

Sandra Bradley, a film production consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interview with Norbert Wollheim on February 18, 1992, in Silver Spring, Md., in preparation for the making of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition film, "Testimony." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the films and tapes of the interview in August 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the films and tapes of the interview via transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

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

  • Mengele, Josef, 1911-
  • Wollheim, Norbert, 1913-
  • Norbert Wollheim
  • Schaeffer, Fritz.
  • Sandra Bradley

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Kapos--Poland--Oswiecim.
  • Jewish children--Germany--Berlin.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland--Oswiecim.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Berlin.
  • Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
  • Welders (Persons)--Poland--Oswiecim.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
  • Prayer.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Roll calls.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
  • Suicide--Poland--Oswiecim.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Sabbat.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
  • Concentration camp tattoos.
  • Oświęcim (Poland)
  • Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Oswiecim.
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Prisoners of war--Great Britain.
  • Revenge.

Genre

  • Oral History
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