Oral history interview with Kurt Klappholz
Extent and Medium
21 sound cassettes (90 min.),
Biographical History
The interview was conducted by the Imperial War Museum as part of their retrospective oral history interview program. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of the interview with Kurt Klappholz from the Imperial War Museum in February 1995.
Archival History
Imperial War Museum
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Permission to copy and/or use recordings in any production must be granted by the Imperial War Museums.
People
- Kurt Klappholz
- Klappholz, Kurt.
Corporate Bodies
- Sakrau (Concentration camp)
- Gross-Sarne (Concentration camp)
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- Laurahütte (Concentration camp)
- Sosnowiec (Concentration camp)
- Blechhammer (Concentration camp)
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- Ludwigsdorf (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army
Subjects
- Death marches.
- Sosnowiec (Województwo Slaskie, Poland)
- Forced labor.
- Concentration camp inmates--Religious life.
- Dysentery.
- Concentration camps--Psychological aspects.
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland.
- Pogroms--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
- Antisemitism--Poland.
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- Sarny Wielkie (Poland)
- Kapos.
- Jews--Poland--Bielsko-Biala.
- Bielsko-Biala (Poland)
- Concentration camp inmates--Selection process.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor.
- Great Britain--Emigration and immigration.
- Crematoriums.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Zionists--Poland.
- Star of David badges.
- Germany.
- London (England)
- Concentration camp inmates--Medical care.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Jewish families--Poland.
- Concentration camp guards.
- Male homosexuality.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Salt mines and mining.
- Prisoners of war--Great Britain.
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
- Death march survivors.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Jews--Persecutions--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Songs and music.
- Holocaust survivors--Great Britain.
- Flossenbürg (Germany)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Cieszyn (Województwo Slaskie, Poland)
Genre
- Oral History
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