Oral history interview with Thomas Buergenthal
Extent and Medium
3 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Katie Davis
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum conducted the oral history interview with Thomas Buergenthal on November 28, 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 Reproduction
Restrictions on use. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a nonexclusive license to use this interview for educational purposes in any medium and to sublicense the interview to other institutions and individuals for use in any medium for educational projects. Mr. Buergenthal retains the copyright to the interview.
People
- Nansen, Odd, 1901-
- Thomas Buergenthal
- Katie Davis
- Buergenthal, Thomas.
Corporate Bodies
- United Nations. Human Rights Committee
- Unesco
- Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne. Dywizja Pancerna, 1
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- American Society of International Law
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- General A. W. Greely (Transport ship)
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Subjects
- Jews--Education--Germany.
- Human rights.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- L'ubochna (Slovakia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Jews--Slovakia--L'ubochna.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Kielce (Poland)
- War crime trials.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Death marches.
- Göttingen (Germany)
- Faith (Judaism)
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Czechoslovakia.
- Oranienburg (Germany)
- Lawyers.
- Orphanages--Poland.
- Death march survivors.
- Paterson (N.J.)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kielce.
- Forced labor.
- Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945.
- Hague (Netherlands)
- International law.
- Frostbite.
- International courts.
- Truth commissions--El Salvador.
- Czechoslovakia.
Genre
- Oral History
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