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Oral history interview with Edward Novakoff

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0409 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0044

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    Oral history interview with Edward Novakoff

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Edward Novakoff, born in 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts, discusses his Ukrainian and Lithuanian immigrant parents; enlisting in the U.S. Army in December 1943; being shipped to Marseilles, France with the 90th Infantry Division; seeing his company wiped out in November 1944; fighting in southern Germany in January 1945; arriving at Flossenbürg in May 1945 and seeing the conditions and the survivors; his transfer to the 26th Regiment, 1st Infantry in August 1945; guarding prisoners for the Nuremburg Trials; having contact with Nuremburg prisoners; returning to the U.S. in December 1945; his life after the war; and helping to create the largest Jewish cemetery in the Boston area.
    Interviewee
    Edward Novakoff
    Interviewer
    Gail Schwartz
    Date
    interview:  1996 September 22
    Geography
    creation: Washington (D.C.)

    Physical Details

    Language
    English Yiddish
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    2 sound cassettes (60 min.).

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Novakoff, Edward, 1926-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Gail Schwartz, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview on September 22, 1996, in Washington, DC. The interview was transferred to the Museum Archives on September 22, 1996.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:12:07
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