Heribert Froboese testimony
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Creator(s)
- Heribert Froboese
Biographical History
Father Heribert Froboese was a Franciscan priest who was born Joachim Friedrich Herbert Froböse, in Dresden, Germany, on 31 July 1898. According to his own post-war testimony, he was arrested in Dresden in 1932 and charged with activities hostile to the state, and then taken to the prison at Bautzen for interrogation, and following that, to the concentration camp at Sachsenburg, near Frankenburg, in Saxony. In 1937, when that camp was dissolved, he was sent to Sachsenhausen (near Oranienburg), and then to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was imprisoned until liberation in 1945.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mark McCormick
Draft typescript report given to the donor's father, Colonel Aloysius McCormick, Jr., by Father Heribert Froboese in Fulda, Germany, 1945.
Scope and Content
Typescript text (37 pages) of the testimony of Father Heribert Froboese, O.F.M., a priest interned at Buchenwald, written shortly after his liberation in 1945; and a photograph of Father Froboese in the clothing of a Franciscan monk, dated August 1945. Father Froboese wrote this testimony with the hope that it could be used in the trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, and he gave the donor's father, Col. Aloysius McCormick, Jr., of the U.S. Army, a copy of this text after meeting him in 1945. File contains an explanatory note from the donor, dated 1984, and a brief biography of Col. McCormick.
People
- Froboese, Heribert (1898- )
Subjects
- Catholic Church--Germany--Clergy.
- Sachsenburg (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Priests--Nazi persecution--Germany--Buchenwald.
Genre
- Document