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Frank A. Holocaust testimony (HVT-4346) interviewed by Ann Solov Walker,

Oral History | Digitized | Fortunoff Collection ID: HVT-4346

Overview

Summary: Videotape testimony of Frank A., who served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts mobilization; transfer to England; landing in Normandy; being wounded by friendly fire; liberating Dachau; observing unburied corpses; taking photographs of the corpses and emaciated survivors; United States officers forcing local German civilians to walk through the camp (they denied knowledge of what happened there), to dig graves, and to bury the corpses; and his departure two hours later. Mr. A. notes sending his photographs of Dachau to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and showing them in a school.
Author/Creator: A., Frank.
Published: Peabody, Mass. : Holocaust Center of the Jewish Federation of the North Shore, 2005
Interview Date: March 9, 2005.
Locale: United States
Cite As: Frank A. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-4346). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Other Authors/Editors: Walker, Ann Solov, interviewer.

Physical Details

Language: English
Copies: 3 copies: Betacam SP master ; 1/2 in. VHS submaster; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
Physical Description: 1 videorecording (20 min.) : 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. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American. United States--Armed Forces--Europe. Oral histories (document genres) A., Frank. Dachau (Concentration camp) United States.--Army.

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/7868524
Record last modified:: 2018-05-30 11:27:00
This page:: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt7868524

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