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Oral history interview with Brian Bishop

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2012.450.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0711

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    Oral history interview with Brian Bishop

    Overview

    Interview Summary
    Brian Bishop, born October 30, 1920 in Portslade, Sussex, England, discusses joining the British Army in 1939; being in the 50th division; the Battle of Dunkirk; being evacuated from Dunkirk; being stationed in North Africa in 1941; his capture by Rommel’s forces near Tobruk, Libya; his transfer from the Germans to the Italians; being taken to an Italian POW camp; his transfer to a second Italian POW camp (PG52) and then to the German POW camp Stalag VIIIB; volunteering to join a work party and being taken by cattle truck to Auschwitz in October 1943; working in the I.G. Farben factory; witnessing the abuse of Jewish prisoners by kapos; experiencing the August 1944 bombing of Auschwitz; receiving Red Cross packages and bartering some of the contents with civilians for bread and eggs; being marched out of Auschwitz as the Russians approached; being liberated by American soldiers in Bavaria and taken to France; psychological problems from his experience in the camps; his medical discharge from the military; attending college and training for a career in electronics; revisiting Auschwitz years later; and his feelings about the suffering he witnessed, both on the battlefield and in the concentration camp.
    Interviewee
    Brian Bishop
    Interviewer
    Duncan Little
    Date
    interview:  2012 July 10

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 digital files : MPEG-4.

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    Keywords & Subjects

    Personal Name
    Bishop, Brian, 1920-

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Duncan Little, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Brian Bishop on July 10, 2012. The interview is part of a series of Museum-produced interviews with British POWs.
    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 08:04:26
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