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Interview of prisoners, Dachau

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2045 | Film ID: 897

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    Interview of prisoners, Dachau

    Overview

    Description
    (LIB 6557) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MCUs, American officer (off screen) interviews prisoners of different nationalities including Dr. Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Dortheimer, Mr. Baum, Edmond Michelet and Prof. Popovitch (Yugoslavian). Each relates in English his experiences at the camp and the conditions which led to their being taken prisoners.
    Duration
    00:11:05
    Date
    Event:  1945 May 05
    Locale
    Dachau, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
    Camera Operator: Bushweller
    Sound Contributor: Hines
    Subject: Mieczyslaw Dortheimer
    Biography
    Dr. Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Dortheimer, born in 1911 in Krakow, Poland, set out to be a lawyer after graduating from Krakow’s Jagiellonian University. When the Nazis marched into Krakow, he fled with his wife and father to Lwow. His father later moved to the Warsaw Ghetto and was subsequently gassed at Treblinka. Later, Dortheimer worked in Tarnow as a factory administrator, on false papers. After the Tarnow ghetto liquidation, with help from his brother-in-law who was in the resistance, Dortheimer managed a saw-mill in the small town of Suchedniow. In January 1944, Dortheimer, his brother-in-law and wife were arrested and interrogated for two months in Radom prison, where it was discovered they were Jewish. In June 1944 they were ‘death marched’ 100km to Tomaszow and crammed onto cattle-cars for Auschwitz. From Auschwitz, Dortheimer was sent to the Natzweiler sub-camp Vaihingen-Enz, and months later to Dachau, where he contracted Typhoid shortly before liberation. Fluent in five languages, Dr. Dortheimer became Chairman of the Jewish Information Office in Dachau and interviewed Nazi war criminals for the Dachau trials as Administrative Director of the War Crimes Branch, (employed by US Army). He emigrated to Australia with his wife and two children in September 1948. After starting out as a laborer on a chicken farm, he built a successful importing business in Melbourne, where he died in 1984.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    01:01:22:00 to 01:12:27:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 897 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Conditions on Use
    To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
    Note
    Date indicated on slate as 6/5/45. This may be a mistake or indicate May 6 or June 5. It is likely that this footage was shot on May 5, see Story 2037.

    See related footage in Story 2037 on Film ID 846.

    For more information about Dr. Dortheimer, refer to https://narratively.com/searching-for-the-nazi-who-saved-my-mothers-life/
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 1362
    Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 4548
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:50:27
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