Oral history interview with John Gidley
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette, analog
Creator(s)
- Nita Howton
- Mary Cook
Biographical History
Mary Cook donated the oral history interview with John Gidley to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2013. The interview is part of a collection of telephone interviews with concentration camp liberators and other American wartime eyewitnesses produced by Mary Cook and Nita Howton from 1993 to 1995.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mary Cook and Nita Howton
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. Restrictions may exist. Contact the Museum for further information: reference@ushmm.org
Copyright Holder: Mary Cook
People
- Gidley, John, 1921-
- John Gidley
- Mary Cook
- Nita Howton
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army
- United States. Army. Medical Corps
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
- Crematoriums--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Concentration camp inmates--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- France.
- Medical personnel
- World War, 1939-1945--Photography.
- Africa, North.
- Belgium.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- Starvation.
- Germany.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Mass burials--Germany.
- Dead.
- Sicily (Italy)
Genre
- Oral History