1981 International Liberators Conference collection Interview transcripts
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Scope and Content
Contains interview transcripts recorded in October 1981 containing the liberation testimony of six liberators and liberation witnesses. The transcripts include information about several concentration camps including Kossen, Ohrdruf, Mauthausen, and Dachau concentration camps. Also includes information about liberator-prisoner relations after liberation, medical services provided for concentration camp survivors, and women and children in the camps.
People
- Hassen, Robert.
- Colston, Jack.
- Ashby, Reginald.
- Tievsky, George.
- Lathrop, Dix.
- Johnson, William.
- Ellifritz, Marie Knowles.
- Peterson, Runyon.
Corporate Bodies
- Flossenbürg (Concentration camp)
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 130th
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 89th
- United States. Army. Armored Infantry Battalion, 21st
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
- Kösen (Concentration camp)
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- United States. Army. Army, 7th
- United States. Army. Field Hospitals
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 90th
- United States. Army. Tank Destroyer Battalion, 602nd
- United States. Army. Armored Division, 4th
- United States. Army. Armored Division, 11th
Subjects
- War criminals.
- Transports.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Personal narratives.
- Burial.
- Nuremberg (Germany)
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- War crimes--Germany.
- War crime trials.
- Prisoners of war.
- Holocaust survivors--Health and hygiene.
- Gas chambers.
- Crematoriums.
- Czechoslovakia.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Typhus fever.
- Tuberculosis.
Genre
- Document
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