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Oral history interview with Alois Zoschg

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.402.11 | RG Number: RG-50.654.0011

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    Oral history interview with Alois Zoschg

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Alois Zoschg, born in 1926 in St. Nikolaus in Ulten in Italy, describes his draft into the SS Polizei Regiment Brixen in 1944; his decision not to desert because his mother would have been imprisoned; the refusal of many of the young recruits to swear allegiance to Hitler; his assignment to the SS-Freiwilligen-Grenadier-Division in Silesia to fight the Soviets; witnessing the shooting of many German prisoners at the end of the war; his imprisonment as a POW by the Soviets at Auschwitz in 1945; conditions at the camp including hunger, forced labor, and a barrack full of female hair; and his release in late 1945 to return home to South Tyrol.
    Interviewee
    Alois Zoschg
    Interviewer
    Gerald Steinacher
    Date
    interview:  2011 April 10
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Zoschg, Alois.

    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. The interview was directed and supervised by Nathan Beyrak.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 09:21:35
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