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Oral history interview with Roberta Jones

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0410 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0013

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    Oral history interview with Roberta Jones

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Roberta Jones, born October 15, 1921 in St. Louis, Missouri, discusses growing up during the Great Depression; enlisting as a nurse in the United States Army; being commissioned as a second lieutenant with the 3rd Army and assigned to the 121st Semi-Mobile Evacuation Hospital; traveling by ship to England and helping in a hospital there; traveling to Luxembourg and then into Germany under dangerous conditions; going to Buchenwald; seeing a crematorium, stacked bodies, and starved prisoners still in uniforms; being offered bread by the prisoners; seeing a lampshade made of human skin in the office of a Nazi official; visiting a smaller liberated concentration camp and watching as American soldiers distributed clothing to naked prisoners; traveling with her hospital to a concentration camp near Linz, Austria (possibly Mauthausen); female nurses being kept outside of the camp fence as men worked inside the camp; meeting newly-liberated English prisoners of war who had been captured at the Battle of Dunkirk; returning to the United States and working at McCormack General Hospital in Pasadena, California; the difficulties of severely disfigured patients integrating into the community in Pasadena; marrying her husband; working at Camp Swift in Texas and Camp Polk in Louisiana, and, during the Korean War, in a military hospital in Michigan; encountering Holocaust deniers; and her insistence that her children know everything about her experience so that they can continue to spread the truth about the Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Roberta S. Jones
    Interviewer
    Margaret Garrett
    Date
    interview:  1997 May 31
    Geography
    creation: Silver Spring (Md.)

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (60 min.).

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    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Jones, Roberta, 1921-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Margaret Garrett, a volunteer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch conducted this interview on May 31, 1997 in Silver Spring, MD. The interview was transferred to the Archives on May 31, 1997.
    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 08:11:56
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