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Oral history interview with Julius Eingorn

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.77 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0077

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    Oral history interview with Julius Eingorn

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Dr. Julius Eingorn describes serving with the 79th Infantry Division, Third Army in a special 12 unit dispensary that liberated Ohrdruf in April 1945; how there were no survivors; what he saw there, including evidence of primitive cremations and the prisoners marched out of Ohrdruf and killed just before liberation; General Eisenhower’s orders that all service men had to tour the camp; how in May 1945 his unit entered an unnamed labor camp near either Weida or Werdau; talking to many of the 150 surviving Jewish Hungarian girls in Yiddish; hearing their stories about the selections and life in the camp; stopping at a German hospital for Polish and Russian prisoners and discovering that out of 1500 patients only 400 survived; his unit’s liberation of British prisoners of war; encountering streams of German refugees fleeing the Russian Army; accepting the surrender of whole German divisions; interviewing many people around Ohrdruf who all felt no guilt and pleaded total ignorance of what happened there; and his reflections on what he saw during the war and the need for constant vigilance to prevent another Holocaust.
    Interviewee
    Dr. Julius Eingorn
    Date
    interview:  1989 January 02
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive

    Physical Details

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

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Eingorn, Julius.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive conducted the interview with Dr. Julius Eingorn in Philadelphia, PA on January 2, 1989. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from Gratz College on October 17, 2000.
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