Oral history interview with Thomas Buergenthal
Extent and Medium
3 sound cassettes (60 min.),
Creator(s)
- Katie Davis
Biographical History
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum conducted the oral history interview with Thomas Buergenthal on November 28, 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 Reproduction
Restrictions on use. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a nonexclusive license to use this interview for educational purposes in any medium and to sublicense the interview to other institutions and individuals for use in any medium for educational projects. Mr. Buergenthal retains the copyright to the interview.
People
- Buergenthal, Thomas.
- Katie Davis
- Nansen, Odd, 1901-
- Thomas Buergenthal
Corporate Bodies
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- United Nations. Human Rights Committee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- General A. W. Greely (Transport ship)
- Unesco
- American Society of International Law
- Poland. Polskie Siły Zbrojne. Dywizja Pancerna, 1
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- Berlin, Battle of, Berlin, Germany, 1945.
- International law.
- Holocaust survivors--United States.
- Forced labor.
- Death march survivors.
- War crime trials.
- Truth commissions--El Salvador.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Lawyers.
- Oranienburg (Germany)
- L'ubochna (Slovakia)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Orphanages--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kielce.
- Hague (Netherlands)
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Death marches.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Czechoslovakia.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Human rights.
- Göttingen (Germany)
- Jews--Education--Germany.
- Faith (Judaism)
- International courts.
- Kielce (Poland)
- Paterson (N.J.)
- Jews--Slovakia--L'ubochna.
- Frostbite.
Genre
- Oral History
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