Oral history interview with Kurt Klappholz
Extent and Medium
21 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Biographical History
The interview was conducted by the Imperial War Museum as part of their retrospective oral history interview program. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of the interview with Kurt Klappholz from the Imperial War Museum in February 1995.
Archival History
Imperial War Museum
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Permission to copy and/or use recordings in any production must be granted by the Imperial War Museums.
People
- Kurt Klappholz
- Klappholz, Kurt.
Corporate Bodies
- Gross-Sarne (Concentration camp)
- Sosnowiec (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- Ludwigsdorf (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Sakrau (Concentration camp)
- Laurahütte (Concentration camp)
- Blechhammer (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie, Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Dysentery.
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- Forced labor.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- Sarny Wielkie (Poland)
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Jews--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
- London (England)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
- Male homosexuality.
- Jewish families--Poland.
- Salt mines and mining.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Death march survivors.
- Bielsko-Biala (Poland)
- Flossenbürg (Germany)
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
- Kapos.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Star of David badges.
- World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
- Germany.
- Prisoners of war--Great Britain.
- Crematoriums.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Concentration camp guards.
- Zionists--Poland.
- Death marches.
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Pogroms--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- Cieszyn (Województwo Slaskie, Poland)
Genre
- Oral History
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