Transcript of Richard Glazar interview
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Archival History
Center for Holocaust Studies
Acquisition
Cite the Center for Holocaust Studies as the holder of the original
The transcript of the Glazar interview was compiled from two audiotapes included in the Yaffa Ellach Collection (OH 81-21-SU, RG 758) at the Center for Holocaust Studies in Brooklyn, N.Y. The Glazar interview was conducted on 26 Oct. 1981 by Bonnie Gurewitsch. The date for donation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives is unknown.
Scope and Content
Consists of a copy of the transcript of the oral history testimony given by Richard Glazar at the Center for Holocaust Studies on 26 October 1981. The transcript includes Glazar's remembrances of life during and after the Holocaust. Glazar devotes a major part of the testimony to his experiences in the Treblinka concentration camp. He describes in detail the administration of the camp, the various nationalities of the prisoners, the method of gassing and incineration of corpses, the formation of the orchestra, and the burning of Treblinka after the uprising.
People
- Adek, Kurt Franz.
- Unger, Charles.
- Glazar, Richard, 1920-
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Counter Intelligence Corps
- Treblinka (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army
Subjects
- Mannheim (Germany)
- Jews--Russia.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Oral history.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- Guerrillas.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.
- Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939-1945)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Musicians.
- Romanies.
- Jews--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Music.
- Sonderkommandos.
- Typhus fever.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Forced labor.
- Escapes.
- Holocaust survivors.
Genre
- Transcripts.
- Document