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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Interview of prisoners, Dachau

    (LIB 6557) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MCUs, American officer (off screen) interviews prisoners of different nationalities including Dr. Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Dortheimer, Mr. Baum, Edmond Michelet and Prof. Popovitch (Yugoslavian). Each relates in English his experiences at the camp and the conditions which led to their being taken prisoners.

  8. Interview with Holocaust survivor Rudy Katz

    Describes the history of Rudy Katz's family in Germany; his experiences after Kristallnacht; his escape to Belgium and immigration to the United States in 1940; and the Holocaust-related fates of members of his family.

  9. Interview with Lea Roback

  12. Interview with Mrs. Minsky: a transcript

    Contains information regarding Mrs. Minsky's Holocaust related experiences in Warsaw, Poland; life and work in the Warsaw ghetto; Nazi actions taken against the Jews in the ghetto; discusses the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; life in Majdanek and Auschwitz; and the death march in Jan.1945.

  13. Interview with Stella Rippel

    Contains the transcript of an interview with Stella Rippel, conducted by Herbert Katzki for the Joint Distribution Commiittee Oral History Project in 1988. Stella Rippel was a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw who worked in the JDC’s Warsaw office in 1949, where she assisted survivors in locating relatives and worked in the Children’s Department.

  14. Interview with survivor at Dachau Concentration Camp

    (LIB 6556) Interview of Prisoner, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MS, off-screen interview of Jewish prisoner, Dr. Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Dortheimer. Dr. Dortheimer was a lawyer in Poland prior to his internment in the Nazi prison camp. He relates in English his experiences in the camp and describes the tortures suffered by all.

  16. Interviews regarding Sobibor Uprising

    Compilation of oral histories with survivors involved with the Sobibor uprising.

  17. Interviews with Buchenwald survivors

    Concentration Camp, Buchenwald, Germany, April 26, 1945. CUs, MSs, internees of Buchenwald concentration camp are interviewed with other survivors. [Image is scratched] CUs, internees from Vienna, Brussels, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands speaking of the horrors of the camps in which they were held prisoners. MSs, CUs of the following persons: Kurt Gatner, former chief of bodyguard of Kurt von Schuschnigg of Vienna, Austria; Jean Blum of Brussels, Belgium; Victor Herskovics of Prague, Czechoslovakia; Serge Kaplan of Eindhoven, Netherlands; Otto Feuer of Hamburg, Germany; and George Henning of B...

  18. Interviews with German generals - not dated

    This undated copy typescript account was apparently written by a German female stenographer working in Paris for the US Historical section. Her narrative describes visits to 'Le Petit Chesnay' and later Hennemont Castle where German generals (eg von Lüttwitz, Schramm, Bayerlein) were held captive. She describes the atmosphere and gives an account of Schramm's report.

  19. Interviews with Holocaust witnesses, collaborators, and perpetrators

    A short video highlighting overseas interviews with witnesses, collaborators, and perpetrators created as part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Oral History program. The 12 minute video combining excerpts of four interviews, three in Polish and one in Lithuanian with a convicted member of a killing squad, has had a wide and powerful impact. 1. Stefan Kucharek, Polish engine driver, shuttled deportation trains between the local railway station and the gate of Treblinka killing center, Poland 1943 2. Aleksandra Nizio and Wiktoria Salega, Polish sisters, as young girls witnesse...

  20. Interviews with Lea Roback