Oral history interview with Kurt Fuchs

Identifier
irn42997
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.70.2
  • RG-50.583.0002
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn42997

Extent and Medium

1 sound cassette,

Biographical History

The Australian Institute of Holocaust Studies conducted the interview with Kurt Fuchs for the Twelfth Hour Project. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in April 2006 from the State Library of New South Wales where the collection is housed.

Archival History

Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Acquisition

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

People

  • Fuchs, Kurt, 1925-
  • Kurt Fuchs

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Concentration camp guards--Germany.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Death marches.
  • Death march survivors.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Germany.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Germany.
  • Jews--Austria--Vienna.
  • Typhoid fever.
  • Austria--History--Anschluss, 1938.
  • Crawinkel (Germany)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Australia--Emigration and immigration.
  • Concentration camp inmates.
  • Jews, Austrian--Belgium.
  • Coal miners.
  • Forced labor.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Belgium.
  • Vienna (Austria)
  • Men--Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
  • Insurgency--Germany.
  • Brussels (Belgium)
  • Belgium--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.
  • Jewish families--Austria--Vienna.
  • Holocaust survivors--Australia--Interviews.

Genre

  • Oral History
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