Francis P. Holocaust testimony (HVT-677) interviewed by Syd Mandelbaum,

Videotape testimony of Francis P., a Roman-Catholic, who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1918. He recalls enlisting in the army nine months before Pearl Harbor, hoping to serve only one year; realizing, after the war began, that he would serve for the duration; attending officer candidate school as a medical administrator; shipment to England in 1943; establishing a large hospital in Rennes, France after D-Day; being taken to Buchenwald after the war ended to provide advice about medical care for the former prisoners; fright and astonishment at the horrendous conditions of the prisoners and conditions in the barracks; observing piles of corpses; difficulty conceiving humans could treat others this way; leaving after three days; and discharge in December 1945.