Oral history interview with Verlin Lundquist
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.
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- Interviewee
- Lundquist, Verlin
- Interviewer
- Johnson, Janice
- Date
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interview:
approximately 1979
- Language
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English
- Extent
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1 DVD.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Bonnie Berggren
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Record last modified: 2022-07-28 19:54:06
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