Oral history interview with Henry Birnbrey
Extent and Medium
1 digital file, MPEG-4
1 digital file, WAV
Creator(s)
- Ina Navazelskis
Biographical History
Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Henry Birnbrey on October 22, 2015.
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
- Birnbrey, Henry, 1923-
- Ina Navazelskis
- Henry Birnbrey
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 30th
Subjects
- Meuse River.
- Magdeburg (Germany)
- 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--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Netherlands.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France--Normandy.
- Synagogues--Destruction and pillage.
- Sabbath.
- Prisoners of war.
- Prisoner-of-war camps.
- Mortain, Battle of, Mortain, France, 1944.
- Kristallnacht, 1938.
- Kindertransports (Rescue operations)
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany.
- Jews--Germany--Dortmund.
- Jewish soldiers--United States.
- Jewish families.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Half-track vehicles, Military.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.
- Combat.
- Antisemitism--Germany.
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- Southampton (England)
- Saint-Lô (France)
- Mortain (France)
- Saxony-Anhalt (Germany)
- Maastricht (Netherlands)
- Haarlem (Netherlands)
- Farsleben (Germany)
- England.
- Dortmund (Germany)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
- Birmingham (Ala.)
- Atlanta (Ga.)
Genre
- Oral History
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