Oral history interview with John Orr
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette, analog
Creator(s)
- Nita Howton
- Mary Cook
Biographical History
Mary Cook donated the oral history interview with John Orr 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
- Mary Cook
- John Orr
- Orr, John, 1918-
- Nita Howton
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 120th
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Revenge.
- Military supplies.
- United States.
- Dead.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
- Starvation.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Massacres--Germany.
- Sexual abuse victims.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Concentration camp inmates--Germany.
- Sex workers.
- Soldiers--United States--Interviews.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Genre
- Oral History