Overview
- Interview Summary
- Ralph G. Rush, a former soldier with HQ Co., Reconnaissance and Intelligence (I&R) Platoon 355 Regiment, 89th Infantry Division, General Patton’s 3rd Army, discusses his experience as a member of the first group of soldiers to liberate Ohrdruf Concentration Camp on April 4, 1945; details about the liberation of prisoners; living conditions at the camp; the condition of the camp’s survivors; bodies of soldiers and inmates; the horrors of burnt and stacked bodies; the story of an inmate who asked for his gun, claiming that SS guards were dressed as inmates to avoid arrest; and his participation in liberating several slave labor camps as his platoon moved East.
- Interviewee
- Ralph G. Rush
- Interviewer
- Nash, Matthew
- Date
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interview:
2011 August 01
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Matthew Nash
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 DVD.
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Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Filmmaker Matthew Nash donated a copy of his interview with Ralph G. Rush to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch in January 2012.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:26:35
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