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Oral history interview with Peter Wirths

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2015.172.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0815

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    Oral history interview with Peter Wirths

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Peter Wirths describes living near Auschwitz while his father, SS-Standortarzt Dr. Eduard Wirths, was stationed at the camp; attending school with five or six other children; being instructed by his parents to not have contact with anyone from the camp or to go close to its grounds; not knowing his father’s role at Auschwitz until later in life; his grandfather’s, uncle’s, and mother’s knowledge of and interest in his father’s work; what he has learned over the years about Auschwitz; the roles of his father and Rudolf Höss at Auschwitz; his father’s interactions with a political prisoner, or “Häftling;” his decision to donate an album containing original photos of his father to the USHMM; Fritz Bauer, a German justice official involved in identifying the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann after his postwar escape to Argentina; his father’s journal from the 1930s and 1940s; and his views on his father and his father’s actions today.
    Interviewee
    Mr. Peter Wirths
    Interviewer
    Dr. Juergen Matthaus
    Date
    interview:  2015 April 17

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Extent
    1 digital file : WAV.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Oświęcim (Poland)

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Dr. Juergen Matthaus, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Peter Wirths on April 17, 2015 in Germany.
    Funding Note
    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 08:04:59
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