Oral history interview with Rudolph Herz
Extent and Medium
4 videotape reels (1" Type C), sound, color ; 1 in.
Creator(s)
- Tom Downey
Biographical History
The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust and South Carolina Educational Television conducted the interview on September 19, 1991. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview in April 1995.
Archival History
South Carolina Educational Television
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Rudolph Herz
- Tom Downey
- Herz, Rudolph, 1925-
Corporate Bodies
- Schwarzheide (Concentration camp)
- Sachsenhausen (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army
- Gusen (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Lieberose (Concentration camp)
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Sturmabteilung
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.
- Brothers.
- Head shaving.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Concentration camp inmates--Suicidal behavior.
- Kapos.
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Holocaust survivors--South Carolina.
- Concentration camp inmates--Intellectual life.
- Pulheim (Germany)
- Concentration camp inmates--Books and reading.
- Stommeln (Pulheim, Germany)
- Death march survivors.
- Korean War, 1950-1953.
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- Book smugglers.
- Bombing, Aerial--Germany.
- Oranienburg (Germany)
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Jews--Germany--Pulheim.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Germany.
- Terezín (Ústecký kraj, Czech Republic)
- Death marches.
- Berlin (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Upper Austria (Austria)
- Anti-Jewish propaganda.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- Forced labor.
- Cologne (Germany)
Genre
- Oral History
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