Oral history interview with France Gradišek
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (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 France Gradišek on February 3, 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
- Gradišek, France.
- France Gradišek
Corporate Bodies
- Yugoslav People’s Army
- Croatian Home Guard
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage.
- Slovenia--History--1918-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Slovenia.
- Book burning--Slovenia--Senožeti.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovenian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovenia.
- Guerrillas--Slovenia.
- Mass murder--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Slovenian.
- Senožeti (Slovenia)
- Massacres--Slovenia.
- Germanization--Slovenia.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Litija (Slovenia)
- Arson--Slovenia.
- Slovenia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Yugoslavia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--Slovenia.
- Slovenia.
- Germany--Armed Forces.
Genre
- Oral History