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Oral history interview with Zdravko Petrič

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2007.504.4.19 | RG Number: RG-50.592.0019

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    Oral history interview with Zdravko Petrič

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Zdravko Petrič, born in 1927 in Skofja, Slovenia, discusses the April 1941 bombing of Ljubljana by the Germans; his brother who joined the partisans; his father who was taken by the Italians to Rab Island in 1941; his father’s return in 1943; the killing of his father by Domobrans; joining the partisans in September 1943; his arrest by German authorities in Iska Vas in November 1943; the German execution of 15 partisans; his transfer to Dachau concentration camp in December 1943; living in barracks with Slovenians, Croats, Italians, Poles, and Russians; the harsh living conditions in the camp; how prisoners took the bodies of dead prisoners to roll call; Jewish prisoners at Dachau; working in a war equipment factory at the camp in Nieckelretz; the brutality of SS guards; the escape and later capture of French Romani prisoners; traveling through Natzweiler and Mauthausen to Gusen 1 where he worked in an airplane factory; the hanging of a Russian prisoner who was accused of sabotaging airplane wings; the physical abuse of prisoners at the factory; his transfer to Gusen 2; liberation by American forces; and the postwar killing of an SS guard by former prisoners.
    Interviewee
    Zdravko Petrič
    Date
    interview:  2009 November 18
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Slovenian
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Petrič, Zdravko.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    This is a witness interview of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Witnesses: The Jeff and Toby Herr Testimony Initiative, a multi-year project to record the testimonies of non-Jewish witnesses to the Holocaust. Nathan Beyrak, Project Director for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, coordinated the interview with Zdravko Petrič on November 18, 2009 as part of the Museum's Former Yugoslavia Witnesses Documentation Project in Slovenia.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:17:32
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