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Edmund M. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1219) interviewed by Barbara Dover and Nathan Miller,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1219

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Col. Edmund M. (Retired) who was a first lieutenant in the 65th Infantry which liberated Mauthausen on May 5, 1945. Colonel M. describes stumbling upon the camp with no prior knowledge of it; the prisoners' condition; the pervasive stench; living conditions; the stone quarry; the gas chambers at the Hartheim castle; and his own desire for justice. He relates historical background on Mauthausen; shows many photographs; describes Franz Ziereis (camp Kommandant), atrocities committed by him and his deathbed statement which Colonel M. obtained from a nurse who helped record it; and the nearby civilian population's denial of knowledge of the camp, which he did not believe. Colonel M. discusses his participation as an intelligence officer in the war crime trials at Dachau.
Author/Creator: M., Edmund.
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1989
Interview Date: February 19, 1989.
Locale: Germany
Cite As: Edmund M. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1219). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Miller, Nathan, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (2 hr.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Liberator.
Postwar experiences.
Subjects: Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. War crime trials--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities. Dachau Trial, Dachau, Germany, 1946. Oral histories (document genres) M., Edmund. United States.--Army.--Infantry Division, 65th. Mauthausen (Concentration camp)

Administrative Notes

Holder of Originals: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Special Collection: Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

Link to Yale University Library Catalog:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1009582
Record last modified:: 2018-06-04 13:24:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt1009582

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