Oral history interview with Donald Butler
Extent and Medium
2 digital files, WMA
Creator(s)
- Peggy Frankston
Biographical History
Peggy Frankston, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Donald Butler in Pittsburg, PA on August 21, 2012. This interview is part of a series of USHMM-produced interviews about Jewish life in countries in North Africa during the Holocaust.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Butler, Donald, 1919-
- Peggy Frankston
- Donald Butler
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army
- Empress of Scotland (Steamship)
Subjects
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- Rabbis.
- Jews--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
- Jews--Dietary laws.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Cassino, Battle of, Cassino, Italy, 1944.
- Virginia.
- Sidi Bel Abbès (Algeria)
- Rome (Italy)
- Pittsburgh (Pa.)
- Palestine.
- Florence (Italy)
- Casablanca (Morocco)
- Cairo (Egypt)
- Chaplains
Genre
- Oral histories.
- Oral History