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Oral history interview with Anthony Cardinale

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.259 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0259

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    Oral history interview with Anthony Cardinale

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Anthony Cardinale discusses his childhood in Pittsburg, California; being called to military service in 1942 but being rejected because he was underweight; his enlistment six months later; his training at Camp Roberts in San Luis Obispo, CA; his assignment to the 115th Mechanized Cavalry and his radio training; his arrival at Dachau concentration camp; witnessing the conditions, corpses, and starving prisoners; his encounters escorting SS officers from the camp; and the emotional reaction he had to what he witnessed and the difficulties he continued to have discussing these events after the war ended.
    Interviewee
    Anthony Cardinale
    Date
    interview:  1993 July 30
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 videocassettes (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Cardinale, Anthony.
    Corporate Name
    United States. Army

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Anthony Cardinale on July 30, 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in March 2001.
    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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