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Oral history interview with Manfred Gans

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2004.563 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0489

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    Oral history interview with Manfred Gans

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Manfred Gans was born in 1922 in Borken, Germany and discusses his experiences as an Orthodox Jew in Germany; his immigration to England to continue his schooling; his internment on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien; joining the British Army in an elite commando unit consisting of European refugees; his unit's landing at Normandy and participation in the D-Day invasion; serving as a battlefield intelligence operative as the British Army advanced from the Normandy beaches into Germany; his discovery that his parents might be alive in Theresienstadt; his experiences traveling by jeep across unconquered territory to Theresienstadt two days after it was liberated by the Russians; his emotional reunion with his parents; his help in the release and resettlement of Jews, including his parents, to the Netherlands; his work as a guard in a prisoner camp for high-ranking Nazis and Gestapo members; becoming one of the three officers running the town of Gladbeck, Germany; becoming deputy commander of an intelligence section of a prisoner camp for high-ranking Nazis, located in Sennelager; and his interrogation of some of the prisoners in preparation for the Nuremberg trials.
    Interviewee
    Manfred Gans
    Interviewer
    Amy Rubin
    Date
    interview:  2004 November 11
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Genre/Form
    Oral histories.
    Extent
    5 sound cassettes (60 min.).

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
    Conditions on Use
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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Gans, Manfred, 1922-
    Corporate Name
    Great Britain. Army

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch conducted the interview with Manfred Gans on November 11, 2004. The interview was received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives Branch in November 2004.
    Funding Note
    The production of this interview was made possible by Jeff and Toby Herr.
    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 08:03:10
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