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| Name: | Stiftung Topographie des Terrors |
| Translated Name: | Topography of Terror Foundation |
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| ADDRESS: | Stresemann Strasse 110
Berlin 10963 |
| COUNTRY: | Germany |
| TELEPHONE NUMBER: | +(49-30) 25 45 09 0
+(49-30) 25 45 09-12 |
| FAX: | +(49-30) 25 45 09-99 |
| EMAIL: | info@topographie.de |
| WEBSITE: | Information Not Available. |
| OPERATING HOURS: | Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
| CONTACT PERSON(S): | Andreas Sander, Senior Historian
Phone: +(49-30) 25 45 09 ext.19
Email: sander@topographie.de
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| GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION: | The mission of the Topography of Terror Foundation is to provide historical information about National Socialism and its crimes as well as to stimulate active confrontation with this history and its impact since 1945.
Since 1987 the Topography of Terror has existed on the „Prinz-Albrecht-Terrain“, explaining with its documentary exhibition the historical significance of this place. Between 1933 and 1945, the central institutions responsible for the repressive and criminal policies of National Socialism were located at this site. At this "site of the perpetrators", important decisions were made concerning the persecution of political opponents, the "Germanisation" of occupied territories in Poland and the Soviet Union, the murder of Soviet prisoners of war and the genocide of the European Jews.
In addition to the main exhibition, the Foundation also created special and travelling exhibitions on different subjects relating to the history of National Socialism. The Foundation presents lectures and discussions, specialised and pedagogical seminars as well as international study tours. |
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| OVERVIEW OF ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION: | In May 1933 the newly formed Secret State Police (Gestapo) moved with its headquarter into the building Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8. In the late summer of 1933, a prison was established in the cellar of this office. The "house prison", with its 39 cells, served to confine prisoners whose interrogation was of particular interest to the Gestapo. Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8 was particularly notorious for its brutal torture methods, whose victims were primarily Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists, members of smaller socialist groups and resistance organisations, and others who refused to be repressed by the regime.
The fate of the former inmates is the main topic of the Foundation's oral history project, which began in 1989. At the beginning, project managers were confronted with a very difficult archival situation, as the Gestapo had managed to destroy most of the prison documents during the last days of the war. Therefore it was very difficult to find out the names of former inmates. The main topics of the interviews are the reasons for arrest (political resistance), experiences in prison, interrogations and subsequent arrests in other prisons or concentration camps. The interviews are first conducted on audiocassettes and then transfered in digital recordings and transcribed into word documents. |
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| Collect Holocaust Oral Histories: | No. |
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| Interview Guidelines: | Information Not Available. |
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| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Project Complete: | Yes. |
| Year of First Interview: | 1989 |
| Year of Last Interview: | 1999 |
| Interviews Per Year: | Information Not Available. |
| Average Hours Per Interview: | 2 |
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| RECORDING METHOD | |
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| Audio: | Yes. |
| Number of Audio Hours: | 80 |
| Total Number of Audio Interviews: | 44 |
| Number of Audio Reel-To-Reel Interviews: | Information Not Available. |
| Number of Audiocassette Interviews: | 44 |
| Number of Interviews in Other Audio Formats: | Information Not Available. |
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| Video: | No. |
| Number of Video Hours: | N/A |
| Total Number of Video Interviews: | N/A |
| Number of 1/2-inch Betacam-SP Interviews: | N/A |
| Number of 3/4-inch U-matic Interviews: | N/A |
| Number of 1/2-inch VHS interviews: | N/A |
| Number of Film interviews: | N/A |
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| RULES: | |
| Access to Collection: | Open. Information Not Available. |
| Special Requirements for Access or Use: | Information Not Available. |
| Notice Required to Pull Tapes or Reserve Facility: | Information Not Available. |
| Access Fee: | N/A |
| Research Services: | Information Not Available. |
| Research Fee: | Information Not Available. |
| Research Services Requirements: | Information Not Available. |
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| Permission Required for Use of Material in | |
| Publications: | Yes. |
| Classrooms: | Yes. |
| Public Lectures: | Yes. |
| Documentaries: | Yes. |
| How To Obtain permission: | Contact the Foundation. |
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| RESOURCES | |
| Format of Collection | |
| Video/Audio: | Information Not Available. |
| Transcripts: | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| On-Site Equipment | |
| Audio: | Yes. |
| Video: | N/A |
| Users Can Bring Their Own: | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Finding Aids | |
| Guide to Collection Available: | No. |
| Published: | N/A |
| Guide Cost: | N/A |
| Address to Obtain Guide: | N/A |
| Additional Information: | N/A |
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| Transcripts | |
| Audio: | 44 |
| Video: | 0 |
| Available for photocopying: | 0 |
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| Summaries | |
| Summarized: | Information Not Available. |
| Available for Photocopying: | Information Not Available. |
| Available on Disk: | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Indices | |
| Tapes Indexed: | Information Not Available. |
| Transcripts Indexed: | Information Not Available. |
| Summaries Indexed: | Information Not Available. |
| Indices Available for Photocopying: | Information Not Available. |
| Indices Available on Disk: | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
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| Cataloging Information | |
| Collection Cataloged: | Information Not Available. |
| Available on Computer: | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | Information Not Available. |
| MARC Format: | Information Not Available. |
| MARC Format Type: | Information Not Available. |
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| Internet Resources | |
| Web Address: | Information Not Available. |
| Transcripts: | No. |
| Summaries: | No. |
| Catalog: | No. |
| Indices: | No. |
| Interview Clips: | No. |
| Other: | No Web-based resources. |
| Additional Information: | N/A |
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| Bibliographic Information | |
| Belong to: | Information Not Available. |
| OCLC: | N/A |
| RLIN: | N/A |
| Other: | N/A |
| Plan to Join: | Information Not Available. |
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| Loan or Purchase | |
| Material Available Through Interlibrary Loan: | No. |
| Loan by other collection: | Information Not Available. |
| Loan Fee: | N/A |
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| DETAIL ABOUT COLLECTION CONTENT | |
| Demographic Information about Interviewees: | |
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| Total Number: | 44 |
| Total Female: | 6 |
| Total Male: | 38 |
| No Data: | Information Not Available. |
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Other Information |
| Jews: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Roma and/or Sinti: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Political Prisoners: | 6 | 37 | 43 | Yes. |
| Prisoners of War: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Jehovah’s Witnesses: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Homosexual Men/Lesbian Women: | | 1 | 1 | Yes. |
| Resisters: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Partisans: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Rescuers: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Refugees: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Liberators: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Prosecutors: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Perpetrators/ Collaborators: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Refugee Relief Workers: | | | | Information Not Available. |
| Other: | | | | Information Not Available. |
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| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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| Focus of Collection: | |
| Ghetto(s) | | |
| Camp(s) | | |
| Geographic Area(s) |  | "House-Prison" of Gestapo in Berlin. |
| Experience(s) | | "House-Prison" of Gestapo in Berlin. |
| Survivor Group(s) | | Political prisoners. |
| Other | | |
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| Additional Information: | Information Not Available. |
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