us-005578-irn78489-irn30402
identifier: irn30402
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn78489-irn30402/acquisitions/1
date: 1947 September 30
has record set type: Item
has or had some members with language: fra
type: RecordSet
archival history: The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Lise Horn McCartney, the daughter of Stefan Horn.
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Graphite pencil image of woman with shirt light curly hair, eyes closed, lips colored in with red colored pencil. recto, in lower left corner, handwritten in graphite:"Mlle Marie-Rose WALLER/interprite/Nuremberg, le 30/9/194"
biographical history: Dr. Stefan Horn graduated from the School for Interpreters in Geneva, Switzerland, and held a Doctorate in rerum politicarum from the University of Vienna, in Austria. He was trained in Geneva as a consecutive interpreter. Dr. Horn applied to Nuremberg for a position as an interpreter and was approved via testing conducted by the United States Army. He worked in Nuremberg, Germany, as a court interpreter, translating English into German, during part of the first War Crimes trial and during the Justice Case. He eventually became Chief Interpreter. After the trials closed in 1949, Dr. Horn joined Léon Dostert at Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Dr. Horn became head of the Division of Interpretation and Translation of the Institute of Languages and Linguistics that Dostert had founded. He later became an American citizen.
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn78489-irn30402/alternateIDs/1
has or had holder: us-005578
record resource extent: overall:
title: Drawing
is or was included in: us-005578-irn78489
scope and content: Drawing created by interpreter during the Nuremberg trials.
conditions of access: No restrictions on access