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Oral history interview with Richard Fimmel

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.679 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0679

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    Oral history interview with Richard Fimmel
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    Interview Summary
    The interview describes Mr. Fimmel's childhood, and his service in the United States Army as part of General Patton's liberating forces. Mr. Fimmel describes his experiences at and impressions of the concentration camp Gusen after the war. The interview includes descriptions of the conditions of the prisoners and information about an underground tunnel used by prisoners to travel from one factory camp to another. Mr. Fimmel discusses the administration of the war zones, the pursuit of escaped SS officers, and the capture and execution of some. He discusses meeting his wife, who was a displaced German woman, in 1946; their marriage, and his return to the United States. Mr. Fimmel describes the reaction of his family in the United States to learning about the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and his impression that some family remember refused to believe that they occurred.
    Interviewee
    Richard Fimmel
    Interviewer
    John Gottlieb
    Date
    interview:  1994 November 15
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    Restrictions on access. Access to this interview is restricted to onsite at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Requests for access outside the Museum must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties.
    Conditions on Use
    The use of this interview is restricted. The Tauber Holocaust Library of the Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties retains copyright on the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project collection. Requests for use rights must be submitted to the Tauber Holocaust Library.

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    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Richard Fimmel on November 15, 1994. The interview was received by the Archives Branch in July 2003.
    Funding Note
    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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    2022-07-28 20:13:20
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