Overview
- Interview Summary
- Robert Drennan, a member of the 120th medical evacuation hospital, describes his wartime experiences; entering Buchenwald about two days after liberation day; the condition of the prisoners; his unit ten days later being detailed to aid the survivors of death marches from Dachau who were liberated near Cham, Germany; and his impressions of SS officers staffing the camps.
- Interviewee
- Mr. Robert Drennan
- Interviewer
- Andrea Barron
- Date
-
interview:
1987 June 15
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Robert Drennan
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 CD.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp guards--Germany. Concentration camp inmates--Germany. Death march survivors. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Medical care. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Cham (Germany) United States.
- Personal Name
- Drennan, Robert.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Robert Drennan donated a copy of his oral history interview to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on March 11, 2009. Andrea Barron conducted the interview June 15, 1987.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:18:53
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn36841
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