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Oral history interview with Charles Sandler

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.338.50 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0050

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    Oral history interview with Charles Sandler

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Charles R. Sandler describes volunteering in April 1941 for the US Army; joining as a private, advancing, and eventually passing through Officer's School; serving with the 11th Armored Division for the duration of the war; being involved in the Battle of the Bulge, the Rhineland Campaign, and the Central European Campaign; being a member of the team that liberated the Mauthausen and the nearby Gusen concentration camp in May 1945; his task force encountering a brief resistance from a few SS men who were guarding the camp; encountering a strong unexplained odor near the camp and discovering piles of dead bodies (he shows several photographs of bodies and prisoners); Gusen being worse that Mauthausen; how people in the surrounding communities denied knowing anything about the existence of the camp; the liberating army group trying to nurse the inmates back to health, starting with a 900 calorie diet; meeting one liberated man, Simon Wiesenthal, years later in Buffalo, NY; being looked on with suspicion by the inmates because of his uniform until he identified himself as an American Jew; a memo written by a non-Jewish German physician that describes the conditions in the Mauthausen camp; the groups who deride Jewish activities during the war and his views on how the Jews contributed to the war effort; the loss of men in his division; a memorial that was set up for the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen; returning home from the war and the importance of sharing his experiences; and his hope that such tragedies will never happen again.
    Interviewee
    Mr. Charles Sandler
    Interviewer
    Mrs. Toby Back

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color ; 1/2 in..

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Sandler, Charles.

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Toby Ticktin Back of the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo conducted the interview with Charles Sandler with the cooperation and support of WIVB-TV in Buffalo, NY. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received copies of interviews from the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo from 1990 - 1993. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the Oral History branch in February 1995.
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