Oral history interview with Herschel Auerbach
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois (now Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center) conducted the interview with Herschel Auerbach on October 20, 1982. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the tape of the interview from the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois on December 12, 1989.
Archival History
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Auerbach, Herschel, 1918-2001.
- Herschel Auerbach
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army
- Dora (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 69th
- Landesheilanstalt Hadamar
Subjects
- Military interrogation--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- New York (N.Y.)
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Prisoner-of-war camps--Germany.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Hadamar (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence--United States.
- War crimes investigation.
- Zeitz (Germany)
- War crime trials.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Burning (Execution)
- Jews--Identity.
- Thuringia (Germany)
- Crematoriums.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
Genre
- Oral History
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