us-005578-irn551430-irn551431
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title: Andrew Nagorski papers
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1999-12-31
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identifier: irn551431
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archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
record resource structure: The collection is arranged by in several small series, chiefly by interview type, and then alphabetically by name of inteviewee.
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1987-01-01
scope and content: Collection consists of transcripts of interviews conducted by Nagorski, primarily in preparation for a cover story on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, written for publication in Newsweek magazine in January 1995. The collection consists of a typescript of the full version of the article; the shortened, public version as it appeared in Newsweek; and transcripts of related interviews that Nagorski conducted in the years following this article. In addition to interviews with Polish and Russian former prisoners of Auschwitz, mostly conducted in the early 1990s, the collection of transcripts also includes interviews with German president Richard von Weizsäcker; Manfred Rommel, the son of General Erwin Rommel; and Niklas Frank, the son of Hans Frank, the Nazi administrator of occupied Poland who was tried and executed by the Allies at the International Criminal Tribunal in Nuremberg.
has or had holder: us-005578
biographical history: Andrew Nagorski, a journalist and author, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1949. His parents, emigres from Poland, moved to the United States when Nagorski was a child. He earned a bachelors degree from Amherst College in 1969, and also studied in Poland, at the University of Cracow. Nagorski joined the staff of Newsweek International as an associate editor in 1973, and served as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for Newsweek in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw, and Berlin between 1978 and 1999. He served as senior editor for Newsweek from 2000 until 2008, and then was vice president and director of public policy for the East-West Institute in New York from 2008 to 2014. Nagorski is the author of several nonfiction works of history, including"The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War I" (2007),"Hitlerland: American Witnesses to the Rise of Nazi Powe" (2012), and"The Nazi Hunter" (2016), among other titles.
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has or had some members with language: eng