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.
- 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.
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
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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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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4295806
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