Oral history interview with Norbert Wollheim
Extent and Medium
4 film reels, color ; 16 mm
7 sound tape reels, analog, mono ; 7 in.
3 videocassette (D2), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Sandra Bradley
Biographical History
Sandra Bradley, a film production consultant for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interview with Norbert Wollheim on February 18, 1992, in Silver Spring, Md., in preparation for the making of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition film, "Testimony." The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the films and tapes of the interview in August 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the films and tapes of the interview via transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
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
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Mengele, Josef, 1911-
- Schaeffer, Fritz.
- Wollheim, Norbert, 1913-
- Norbert Wollheim
- Sandra Bradley
Corporate Bodies
- St. Louis (Ship)
- Monowitz (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Holocaust survivors--United States--Interviews.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland--Oswiecim.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Poland--Oswiecim.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Welders (Persons)--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Suicide--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Sabbat.
- Roll calls.
- Revenge.
- Prisoners of war--Great Britain.
- Prayer.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Kapos--Poland--Oswiecim.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Berlin.
- Jewish children--Germany--Berlin.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- Concentration camp tattoos.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Oświęcim (Poland)
- Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
- Germany--Social conditions--1933-1945.
Genre
- Oral History