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Jerry S. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1617) interviewed by Kay Cawthorn and Diane M. Plotkin,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-1617

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Jerry S., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1943. He recounts assignment to the 82nd Airborne Division; dropping into France behind enemy lines; fighting from town to town in Germany; entering Dachau, having no conception of a concentration camp; observing prisoners who looked like walking cadavers, mostly Jews; providing whatever food and water they had; observing piles of corpses, human hair, and belongings; United Stares military authorities compelling local Germans to go through Dachau; their specious claim of having no knowledge of the camp; and leaving shortly thereafter.
Author/Creator: Jerry S.
Published: Dallas, Tex. : Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies, 1991
Interview Date: March 15, 1991.
Locale: United States
Cite As: Jerry S. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1617). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Plotkin, Diane M., interviewer.
Cawthorn, Kay, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 4 copies: 3/4 in. submaster; Betacam SP restoration master; Betacam SP restoration submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (1 hr., 14 min.) : col

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects (Local Yale): Liberator.
Subjects: Video tapes. Men. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American. United States--Armed Forces--Europe. Oral histories (document genres) Jerry S. United States.--Army.--Airborne Division, 82nd. Dachau (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/4295806
Record last modified:: 2018-05-29 11:58:00
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