Oral history interview with Herman Janež
Extent and Medium
2 videocassettes (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
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. Nathan Beyrak, Project Director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Herman Janež on February 1, 2009 as part of the Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Slovenia.
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.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Herman Janež
- Janež, Herman.
Corporate Bodies
- Kampor--Rab (Concentration camp)
- Gonars (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Rab (Croatia)
- Slovenia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
- Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Slovenian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovenian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Slovenia.
- Slovenia--History--1918-1945.
- Mass murder--Slovenia.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Italy--Armed Forces.
- Gonars (Italy)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Yugoslavia.
Genre
- Oral History