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Oral history interview with Arthur Thompson Cook

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.5 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0005

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    Oral history interview with Arthur Thompson Cook

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Arthur Thompson Cook describes being a second-year clinical student at St. Thomas's Hospital and being sent to assist at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the spring of 1945; the students having some clinical experience; the condition of his allocated hut; the removal of dead bodies; setting up a clean hut for likely survivors; cleaning the inmates; the physical condition of inmates; prevalent diseases; difficulties with feeding inmates; an inmate who acted as an interpreter; relations between Russian and Polish inmates; risks of infection to medical students; burning of huts; details about the camp; seeing piles of inmates’ property; conditions when his time at the camp was over; sight-seeing in Germany after working in the camp; and his attitude towards Germans.
    Interviewee
    Arthur T. Cook
    Date
    interview:  1994 February 14

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (90 min.).

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
    Restrictions on use. Permission to copy and/or use recordings in any production must be granted by the Imperial War Museums.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Cook, Arthur Thompson.

    Administrative Notes

    Holder of Originals
    Imperial War Museum
    Provenance
    The interview was conducted by the Imperial War Museum as part of their retrospective oral history interview program. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired a copy of the interview with Arthur Thompson Cook from the Imperial War Museum in February 1995.
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    2023-11-16 08:17:17
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