Overview
- Interview Summary
- Tudy Jennaro describes the United States Army 3rd Mechanized Cavalry Group; being drafted; his experiences as a soldier in the Third Cavalry of the US Army during World War II, including his time in active combat in Europe and his frequent sightings of General George Patton; going though Paris, France; encountering a French prisoner of war, who ended up staying with the unit and interrogating German prisoners; going to Ebensee, Austria and seeing the concentration camp; the conditions of the surviving inmates; and details on life as a soldier.
- Interviewee
- Tudy Jennaro
- Date
-
interview:
2013
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the S.A.V.E. Team
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 DVD : MPEG-2.
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- Copyright Holder
- Swallow School Destination Imagination Team - Survivor and Veteran Experiences Team
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp inmates--Austria--Ebensee. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--United States--Personal narratives. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France. World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States. Men--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Ebensee (Austria) Europe. Paris (France) United States.
- Personal Name
- Jennaro, Tudy.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Survivor and Veteran Experiences (S.A.V.E) Team donated its oral history interview with Tudy Jennaro to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 2014. The interview is part of a collection titled "Stories from World War II," produced by the 2013 Swallow Middle School Seventh Grade Destination Imagination Team of Hartland, WI.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:32:05
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