Cantor Henry Butensky testimony
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Henry Butensky
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Cantor Henry Butensky
Cantor Henry Butensky donated his testimony to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 as part of the Museum's 20th anniversary activities in Boca Raton.
Scope and Content
Consists of a copy of written testimony, 5 pages, by Cantor Henry Butensky, a member of the 66th Infantry of the 71st Division of the United States Army. In his testimony, written in 1989, Butensky described his experiences liberating a labor camp near Wels, Austria, the Straubing concentration camp, and the Gunskirchen concentration camp. Cantor Butensky, who spoke Yiddish, reflected on the liberations in the context of his own Jewish background.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Cantor Henry Butensky
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Wels (Austria)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--Gunskirchen.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Straubing (Germany)
Genre
- Document