Overview
- Description
- Contains 42,000 documents, including 25,000 accounts by Holocaust survivors of Jewish slave labor in ghettos and camps.All these survivors have been registered with The Institute of Documentation between 1970-1985 in Haifa,Israel.
- Date
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inclusive:
1998
- Collection Creator
- Tuviah Friedman
Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa - Biography
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Tuviah Friedman (1922 — 2011) was a Nazi hunter and director of the Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa, Israel. Friedman was born in Radom, Poland in 1922. During World War II he was imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp near Radom, from which he escaped in 1944. The following year he was appointed an interrogation officer in the Danzig jail. From 1946 to 1952 he worked for Haganah Wien in Austria, as Director of the Staff of The Documentation-Center in Vienna where he and his colleagues hunted down numerous Nazis. Afterwards, in Israel, he played a role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Testimonies.
- Extent
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18 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing station. There are no additional access restrictions to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
- Copyright Holder
- Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Institute for the Documentation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Testimonies were collected from 1970 to 1985 by the Institute of Documentation in Haifa, Israel. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this collection from Tuviah Friedman, the Director for the Institute of Documentation on September 13, 1999.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:06:15
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- Terms of Use
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