Oral history interview with Herschel Auerbach
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Biographical History
The Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois (now Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center) conducted the interview with Herschel Auerbach on October 20, 1982. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the tape of the interview from the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois on December 12, 1989.
Archival History
Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Auerbach, Herschel, 1918-2001.
- Herschel Auerbach
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 69th
- United States. Army
- Landesheilanstalt Hadamar
- Dora (Concentration camp)
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Allied Forces. Supreme Headquarters
Subjects
- Prisoner-of-war camps--Germany.
- Military interrogation--United States.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- War crime trials.
- War crimes investigation.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Crematoriums.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Burning (Execution)
- Zeitz (Germany)
- Thuringia (Germany)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Hadamar (Germany)
- Jews--Identity.
Genre
- Oral History
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