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Oral history interview with David Novick

Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.252.1 | RG Number: RG-90.070.0001

David Lloyd Novick, born in March 1925 and raised Orthodox, discusses being in the US Army within a Combat Engineer Battalion, Contact Platoon, attached to Patton's third Army; being on the beaches of Normandy and at the Battle of the Bulge; and going into a camp near Dachau, Germany.

Interviewee: David L. Novick
Interviewer: Rochelle Novick
Date: interview: approximately 2001
Language: English
Extent: 1 sound cassette.
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Novick family

Special Collection: The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Topical Term: Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.
Combat.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jewish soldiers.
Orthodox Judaism.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
Men--Personal narratives.
Geographic Name: Germany.
Normandy (France)
United States.
Personal Name: Novick, David, 1925-2007.
Corporate Name: Dachau (Concentration camp)
United States. Army.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Denise Novick donated the interview with her father-in-law David Novick to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2019.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2020-10-07 13:38:20
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