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Oral history interview with Gianni Faronato

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.402.15 | RG Number: RG-50.654.0015

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    Oral history interview with Gianni Faronato

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Gianni Faronato, born in 1927 in Feltre in Italy, describes his involvement with the Partisans; his arrest by the SS in 1944 and imprisonment in the prison camp in Bolzano; his transfer to Aussenlager Gossensass, where he remained until the end of the war; the last days of the war when he was ordered to burn the documents from the Fascist government regarding the status of Italian Jews; the burning of the Grand hotel Gröbner, the last headquarters of the SS in Italy; returning home in 1945; the aftermath of the war, including how many SS officers got away without a trial; and his life after the war.
    Interviewee
    Gianni Faronato
    Interviewer
    Gerald Steinacher
    Date
    interview:  2011 May 18
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    Italian
    Extent
    1 videocassette (DVCAM) : sound, color ; 1/4 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Faronato, Gianni.

    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.
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    2023-11-16 09:21:37
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