Oral history interview with Rudolph Herz

Identifier
irn507347
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.A.1263.17
  • RG-50.166.0017
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn507347

Extent and Medium

4 videotape reels (1" Type C), sound, color ; 1 in.

Creator(s)

  • Tom Downey

Biographical History

The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust and South Carolina Educational Television conducted the interview on September 19, 1991. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview in April 1995.

Archival History

South Carolina Educational Television

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

People

  • Tom Downey
  • Rudolph Herz
  • Herz, Rudolph, 1925-

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Death marches.
  • Pulheim (Germany)
  • Stommeln (Pulheim, Germany)
  • Head shaving.
  • Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
  • Upper Austria (Austria)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
  • Jews--Germany--Pulheim.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Books and reading.
  • Anti-Jewish propaganda.
  • Bombing, Aerial--Germany.
  • Book smugglers.
  • Forced labor.
  • Death march survivors.
  • Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
  • Kristallnacht, 1938.
  • Antisemitism--Germany.
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
  • United States--Emigration and immigration.
  • Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
  • Korean War, 1950-1953.
  • Berlin (Germany)
  • Cologne (Germany)
  • Brothers.
  • Oranienburg (Germany)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
  • Holocaust survivors--South Carolina.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Kapos.
  • Jews--Persecutions--Germany.

Genre

  • Oral History
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