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Oral history interview with Joe Friedman

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.A.0481 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0380

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    Oral history interview with Joe Friedman

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Joe Friedman, born in St. Joseph, MO on March 10, 1920, discusses his attempts to join the navy at the beginning of the war; being drafted into the US Army in July 1942; moving up the army ranks from private to corporal to sergeant; attending officer’s training school to become a second lieutenant; going overseas in 1944, where he was attached to the Third Army division and became a member of the 91st Evacuation Hospital; being part of the first company to enter the gates of Ohrdruf, a sub-camp of Buchenwald in Germany, in early April 1945; helping to get food and give the former prisoners the attention they needed; volunteering for work in displaced persons camps, which included Wildflecken in Germany and Baumberg, Germany; becoming the commander of the camp in Coburg, Germany and then being promoted to a captain; being commissioned to oversee all displaced persons camps and German repatriation in American-occupied Bavaria; working with the Jewish underground to get Jews across the border from the Russian zone into the American zone of Germany; being caught working with the underground and threatened with arrest; and making it back to the US, where he received an Army Commendation Medal.
    Interviewee
    Friedman, Dr. Joe
    Interviewer
    Neenah Ellis
    Date
    interview:  1996 October 03

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    4 videocasettes (Betacam SP) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Friedman, Joe, 1920-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Neenah Ellis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Joe Friedman on October 3, 1996.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:02:28
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