Oral history interview with Waltrudis Becker
Extent and Medium
4 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Roswitha Breckner
Biographical History
This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. The interview was conducted with Waltrudis Becker in Coburg, Germany on March 13, 1999. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the tapes of the interview in 2001.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation
Funding Note: The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
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 Access
Restrictions on access. Interview is viewable onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum only.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org
People
- Roswitha Breckner
- Waltrudis Becker
- Becker, Waltrudis, 1917-
Corporate Bodies
- Bund Deutscher Mädel
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Reichsparteitag
- Nazi Party
- Germany. Reichsarbeitsdienst
Subjects
- Coburg (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Germany--History--1933-1945.
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Germany.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- National socialism--Germany--Karlsruhe.
- World War, 1939-1945--War work--Germany.
- Villingen (Germany)
- Forchheim (Oberfranken, Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German.
- Theft--Germany.
- Bad Schussenried (Germany)
- Nuremberg (Germany)
- Forced labor--Germany.
- Germany.
- Karlsruhe (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany.
- Nazis--Germany--Karlsruhe.
- Women--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust denial--Germany.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
Genre
- Oral History