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Oral history interview with Anthony Cardinale and William Clayton

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 1997.A.0444.11 | RG Number: RG-50.467.0011

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    Oral history interview with Anthony Cardinale and William Clayton

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    Interview Summary
    Anthony (Tony) Cardinale (who was a 19-year-old Private First Class radio operator assigned to Headquarters Company of the 222nd Regiment in 1945), and William (Bill) Clayton (who was a rifleman In Company E, of the 2nd Battalion in the same unit which was part of the 42nd Rainbow Division during WWII), discuss their involvement in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp; reporting their sighting of 25-30 box cars full of dead bodies, presumably of former inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp; finding one person alive amidst all those bodies and evacuating him to a hospital; the initial quiet in the camp until the prisoners were able to determine that they were liberated; the pandemonium that broke out as the former inmates thanked the Americans; a few SS soldiers who tried to evade capture by posing as prisoners but were pointed out by the former inmates; seeing stacked-up bodies at the crematorium; and their urging that children be told the truth about the camps to preclude the acceptance of revisionist history.
    Interviewee
    William Clayton
    Anthony Cardinale
    Interviewer
    Constance Bernstein
    Lamed V. Landwirth
    Date
    interview:  1995 July 15
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Survivors and Surviving Generations of the Holocaust

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

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    The interview with Anthony Cardinale and William Clayton was conducted on July 15, 1995, by the Surviving Generations of the Holocaust as part of a project documenting the testimonies of members of the 42nd Rainbow Division whom participated in the liberation of Dachau. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in March 1997.
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