- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Norris B., who was drafted into the United States infantry at age eighteen and sent to France in January 1945. He recalls moving through France and Germany; serving as a rifleman and interpreter; interviewing captured German prisoners; vague knowledge of concentration camps; stumbling across prisoners in very bad condition, then entering Gunskirchen; giving what little food they had to the prisoners; shock at piles of corpses and conditions in the camp; realizing many prisoners would not survive due to their debilitated condition; local civilians claiming no knowledge of the camp although it was in clear view; leaving after a medical unit arrived; interrogating Axis prisoners suspected of war crimes; arrogance and lack of cooperation from SS members; writing letters home which were published locally; and returning to the United States in April 1946.
- Author/Creator
- B., Norris.
- Published
- Ventnor, N.J. : Federation of Jewish Agencies of Atlantic County/Stockton State College, Holocaust Oral History Project, 1995
- Interview Date
- February 13, 1995.
- Locale
- United States
- Cite As
- Norris B. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2834). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Karp, Rochelle, interviewer.
Peskoe, Arthur, interviewer.
