Oral history interview with Kurt Klein
Extent and Medium
1 film reel, color ; 16 mm
2 sound tape reels, analog, mono ; 7 in.
1 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 Kurt Klein on March 13, 1992, in Scottsdale, Ariz., 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
- Klein, Kurt, 1920-
- Klein, Gerda Weissmann, 1924-
- Kempka, Erich.
- Sandra Bradley
- Kurt Klein
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Army, 3rd
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 5th
Subjects
- Volary (Czech Republic)
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- War crime trials--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- War criminals--Germany.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Germany--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--German Americans.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Anti-Jewish boycotts--Germany.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Germany--Politics and government--1918-1933.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Military interrogation--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Czech Republic--Volary.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Oral History