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Oral history interview with Thomas Batanides

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.393 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0393

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    Oral history interview with Thomas Batanides

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Thomas Batanides describes his childhood in a religious Greek orthodox family; speaking only Greek at home; his eight siblings; being drafted into the war in 1942 when he was 19 years old; being trained in Oregon and then going to Colorado; serving in the 104th Infantry Division of the United States Army; being sent to France in 1944 and entering Normandy 90 days after D-Day; going to Belgium, Poland, and Germany; first hearing of the concentration and death camps through word-of-mouth about two weeks before they entered one; entering Nordhausen concentration camp and helping to liberate the prisoners; the horrific conditions he witnessed; how this experience affected him; and finally speaking with the rest of his infantry division at a reunion in 1982 about what they had witnessed in the camp.
    Interviewee
    Thomas Batanides
    Date
    interview:  2001 August 08
    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
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    1 videocassette (SVHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Conditions on Access
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Batanides, Thomas.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project conducted the interview with Thomas Batanides on August 8, 2001. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received the tapes of the interview from the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project in October 2002.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:45:03
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