Andrew Nagorski papers

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Overview

Description: Collection consists of transcripts of interviews conducted by Nagorski, primarily in preparation for a cover story on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, written for publication in Newsweek magazine in January 1995. The collection consists of a typescript of the full version of the article; the shortened, public version as it appeared in Newsweek; and transcripts of related interviews that Nagorski conducted in the years following this article. In addition to interviews with Polish and Russian former prisoners of Auschwitz, mostly conducted in the early 1990s, the collection of transcripts also includes interviews with German president Richard von Weizsäcker; Manfred Rommel, the son of General Erwin Rommel; and Niklas Frank, the son of Hans Frank, the Nazi administrator of occupied Poland who was tried and executed by the Allies at the International Criminal Tribunal in Nuremberg.
Date: inclusive: 1987-1999
Credit Line: Permanent Collection. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Gift of Andrew Nagorski
Collection Creator: Andrew Nagorski
Biography: Andrew Nagorski, a journalist and author, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1949. His parents, emigres from Poland, moved to the United States when Nagorski was a child. He earned a bachelors degree from Amherst College in 1969, and also studied in Poland, at the University of Cracow. Nagorski joined the staff of Newsweek International as an associate editor in 1973, and served as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for Newsweek in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw, and Berlin between 1978 and 1999. He served as senior editor for Newsweek from 2000 until 2008, and then was vice president and director of public policy for the East-West Institute in New York from 2008 to 2014. Nagorski is the author of several nonfiction works of history, including "The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II" (2007), "Hitlerland: American Witnesses to the Rise of Nazi Power" (2012), and "The Nazi Hunters" (2016), among other titles.

Physical Details

Language: English
Genre/Form: Transcripts. Articles.
Extent: 1 box
System of Arrangement: The collection is arranged by in several small series, chiefly by interview type, and then alphabetically by name of inteviewee.

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Interviews. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland--Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Personal Name: Bartoszewski, Władysław. Petrenko, Vasiliĭ. Weizsäcker, Richard von, 1920-2015. Frank, Niklas, 1939- Rommel, Manfred, 1928-2013.

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Gift of Andrew Nagorski, 2016.

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Materials related to research conducted by Nagorski into topics related to the history of the Holocaust and World War II. Includes the extended draft of an article about Auschwitz written by Nagorski, 1995, and published version of same as it appeared in Newsweek, 16 January 1995, sound recordings of interviews of historical eyewitnesses, historians, and others interviewed by Nagorski during his career at Newsweek, and while writing his books “Hitlerland” and “The Nazi Hunters,” transcripts of interviews, and other related research (and other) materials.

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Oral history interview with Albert Grinholtz

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Albert Grinholtz, born on December 4, 1920 in Opoczno, Poland, discusses his family’s move to Paris, France in 1922 (he went with his father first and then his mother and little brother arrived later); being summoned along with his younger brother to register at the commissariat de police on May 14, 1941; being taken to the Gare d’Austerlitz and sent to Pithiviers, where he stayed for 13 months; being deported on June 25, 1942 to Auschwitz-Birkenau by cattle car, while his parents remained behind in Paris; the conditions of deportation and arrival in Birkenau; how the camp was not yet completed and the men were housed in the women’s barracks; the daily routine, brutality, and construction work brigade; being selected as one of 22 barbers to shave daily both the Germans and prisoners, about 450 men a day, and this work providing him with a bit more food; working on the construction of an Olympic pool in Birkenau, which was used for Nazi propaganda; his work cutting fuelwood for the mines nearby; the situation in January 1945 as the Germans began their retreat and the evacuation and murder of Jewish prisoners; hiding in the kitchen, unseen in the chaos, and being liberated later; being evacuated to Marseille, France on June 18, 1945; going to Budapest, Hungary and Bucharest, Romania, where he was taken care of by the Joint; and returning to Paris.