Oral history interview with George Wehmoff

Oral history interview with James Reese

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Oral history interview with Harry F. Allen

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Harry F. Allen, born on January 10, 1916, describes serving in World War II from March of 1942 until April of 1946; graduating from Officer's Candidate School and being assigned to the combat engineers; training in Mississippi; being stationed in England before landing in Europe; being part of the first, third, and seventh armies; entering Dachau concentration camp; the guards surrendering immediately; being told about the camp before arriving there; conditions in the camp and speaking with the surviving inmates; taking pictures in the camp; his reaction to the camp as a Christian; and his thoughts on Germans.

Oral history interview with Bill Allison

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Oral history interview with an anonymous interviewee

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Oral history interview with John Henry Baker

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Oral history interview with Grady M. Barker

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Oral history interview with William R. Barton

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Oral history interview with William G. Bates

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Oral history interview with Gene Benjamin

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Oral history interview with Abraham Bernstein

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Oral history interview with Frank Bezares

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Oral history interview with Henry Birnbrey

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Oral history interview with Haim Blanc

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Oral history interview with Kenneth Bowers

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Oral history interview with Ernest Braun

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Oral history interview with Zew Budansky

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Oral history interview with David Campbell

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Oral history interview with Philip Carlquist

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Oral history interview with William Cartledge

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Oral history interview with Franklin Lee Clark

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Oral history interview with Daniel Cogar

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Oral history interview with Aaron Cohn

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Oral history interview with Kenneth W. Cotton

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Oral history interview with Maurice Coursey

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Oral history interview with Dean Covington

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Oral history interview with Edward John di Gilio

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Oral history interview with Roy W. Dodd

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Oral history interview with C. W. Doughtly

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Oral history interview with Joseph Drewry

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Oral history interview with W. W. Dunagan

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Oral history interview with George Duncan

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Oral history interview with John Dunne

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Oral history interview with Ari Falik

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Oral history interview with Ari Falik

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Oral history interview with Bernard Fine

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Oral history interview with Wilson Freeman

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Oral history interview with Wilson Freeman

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Oral history interview with Stanley Gaylord

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Oral history interview with Louie Gillespie

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Oral history interview with Samuel Glashow

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Oral history interview with John Glustrom

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Oral history interview with Emmet Goodman

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Oral history interview with Lewis Greene

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Oral history interview with Paul Gumz

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Oral history interview with Jack Hallet

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Oral history interview with Frank Hamburger

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Oral history interview with Bernard Hansen

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Oral history interview with Denton Harris

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Oral history interview with Herman Hellerstein

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Oral history interview with Russel Hines

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Oral history interview with Edward Izac

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Oral history interview with William Jucksch

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Oral history interview with George King

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Oral history interview with Joseph Kushlish

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Oral history interview with Jesse Lafoon

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Oral history interview with William B. Lovelady

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Oral history interview with Marshall Mantler

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Oral history interview with Howard Margol

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Oral history interview with James May

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Oral history interview with Eugene McPheeters

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Oral history interview with Fred Mercer

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Oral history interview with Curtis Mitchell

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Oral history interview with Miguel Montesinos

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Oral history interview with Judah Nadich

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Oral history interview with Lauren Nash

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Oral history interview with Matthew Nesbitt

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Oral history interview with Morris Parloff

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Dr. Morris Parloff, born on October 29, 1918, describes being part of the T-Force during World War II; his job to perform arrests and gather documents in Europe; his group of around 45 men; his first mission in 1944 in Aachen, Germany, where he screened people; learning of the V-2 and being eager to locate it; going to Nordhausen to investigate the V-2 and discovering the concentration camp; being eager to speak with European Jews; training at Camp Ritchie in Maryland; interrogating German civilians; his interactions with a German Jewish man, who provided him information and had also been an informant for the Gestapo earlier in the war; his views on the man’s collaboration and survival strategy; hearing rumors about concentration camps; going to Leipzig, Germany briefly; entering the camp at Nordhausen, which had already been liberated; being given a tour of the camp and seeing the crematorium; his experience being Jewish in the military; his views on the SS and the Nazis; never returning to Germany nor Europe; his children; his thoughts on the prevention of another Holocaust; returning after the war; and further details on his experiences during the war.

Oral history interview with Calvin Paul

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Oral history interview with Dwight Pearce

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Oral history interview with Robert Perelman

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Oral history interview with Leo Pine

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Oral history interview with Fred Pohm

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Oral history interview with William W. Quinn

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Oral history interview with J. P. Reilly

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Oral history interview with Charles Reiner

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Oral history interview with George P. Ricketts

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Oral history interview with M. O. Robinson

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Oral history interview with Robert W. Russ

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Oral history interview with Saul Sadek

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Oral history interview with Richard Schifter

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Richard Schifter, born in Vienna, Austria in 1923, describes his parents being in Lublin, Poland in the early 1940s and living in the ghetto; his immigration to the United States from Vienna in December 1938 when he was 15 years old; his parents’ failed attempts to emigrate from Vienna; finishing college and joining the US Army; being in the T-Force in the 12th Army Group; training to an interrogator at Camp Ritchie in Maryland; going to England in June 1944; arriving at Omaha Beach (Normandy, France) in August 1944; being part of the 1st Infantry Division when they took Aachen, Germany in October 1944; remaining in Aachen for the winter of 1944-1945 and living in a townhouse with his group; interrogating the civilian population and his views of the Germans in Aachen; his interactions with the German military; finding the concentration camp Nordhausen; speaking Yiddish to the inmates; the inmates’ discomfort living amongst perpetrators; the crematoriums; only seeing male inmates; being involved with the United States Holocaust Memorial Council; not experimenting antisemitism while he was in the army; his views on Judaism and Israel; his political views being shaped by his early life; learning Yiddish in New York, NY; the Jewish experience and the sources of the Holocaust; the genocide of Jews, Romanies, and Armenians; speaking with former Dora inmates during the war; and his interactions with former inmates. [Note that the recording is damaged in part 2 from minute 8:25 to minute 21:00.]

Oral history interview with Richard Schley

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Oral history interview with William A. Scott

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Scott served with the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion of the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald.

Oral history interview with Frank Spiegel

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Oral history interview with Thomas Spruill

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Oral history interview with Willie Tatum

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Oral history interview with Lawrence Thouin

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Oral history interview with James Tirey

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Oral history interview with Haiden G. Turner

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Oral history interview with John Vlass

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Oral history interview with Malcolm Webber

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Oral history interview with William Weinberg

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Oral history interview with Bert Weston

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Oral history interview with Albert Wildman

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Oral history interview with Dennis Wile

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Oral history interview with C. J. Williams

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Oral history interview with Howard Wiseberg

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Oral history interview with Carlisle Woelfer

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Oral history interview with Edward Young

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Oral history interview with Jerome Zimmerman

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