Overview
- Interview Summary
- Karl Frenzel discusses his role as a commandant at Sobibor.
- Interviewee
- Karl A. Frenzel
- Interviewer
- Thomas Blatt
- Date
-
interview:
1983
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rena Smith
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Extent
-
11 digital files : MP3.
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- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp guards--Personal narratives. Concentration camp inmates. Crematoriums--Poland--Sobibór. Jews--Poland--Sobibór. Mass murder--Poland--Sobibór. Men--Personal narratives. War criminals. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, German. World War, 1939-1945--War work.
- Geographic Name
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945. Sobibór (Poland)
- Personal Name
- Blatt, Thomas Toivi, 1927-2015. Frenzel, Karl, 1911-1996.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Rena Smith donated her father Thomas Blatt's interview with Karl Frenzel to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2020. The interview was recorded in Hagen, Germany in 1983.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 10:08:04
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