Oral history interview with Anton Šercer
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 Anton Šercer on February 5, 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
- Šercer, Anton.
- Anton Šercer
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Gestapo
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Yugoslav People’s Army
- Croatian Home Guard
Subjects
- Mass murder--Germany.
- Death marches.
- Slovenia.
- Kočevje (Slovenia)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Military interrogation--Poland.
- Gornji Grad (Slovenia)
- Forced labor--Poland.
- Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Slovenia.
- Guerrillas--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Slovenian.
- Slovenia--History--Axis occupation, 1941-1945.
- Massacres--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Slovenia.
- Slovenia--History--1918-1945.
- Ljubljana (Slovenia)
- Death march survivors.
- Propaganda--Slovenia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Slovenian.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Yugoslavia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage.
- Dolga Vas (Kočevje, Slovenia)
- Italy--Armed Forces.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Slovenia.
- Altenburg (Germany : Landkreis)
Genre
- Oral History