Overview
- Interview Summary
- Verlin Lundquist discusses his experience following the Battle of the Bulge as an American prisoner of war in a camp near Magdeburg, Germany; details of his capture; conditions in the prisoner of war camp; resistance activities in the camp; parcels from the International Committee of the Red Cross; interactions between guards and prisoners; the deaths of some of his fellow prisoners; his liberation by the Russians; his recuperation after the war; and learning, upon his return to the United States, about Hitler’s plans for Europe’s Jews.
- Interviewee
- Verlin Lundquist
- Interviewer
- Janice Johnson
- Date
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interview:
approximately 1979
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Bonnie Berggren
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 DVD.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Men--Personal narratives. Prisoners of war. World War, 1939-1945--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Geographic Name
- Magdeburg (Germany)
- Personal Name
- Lundquist, Verlin.
- Corporate Name
- United States. Army
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Bonnie Berggren donated a DVD copy (transferred from original VHS tape) of an oral history interview with Verlin Lundquist, recorded in a Junior high school history class in Manhattan, KS in ca. 1979, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in November 2012.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:28:55
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