Don Tague testimony
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Don Tague
Don Tague donated his testimony to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 15, 2010, during the 2010 Days of Remembrance commemoration honoring liberators.
Scope and Content
Consists of handwritten testimony, two pages, written by Don Tague, a member of A Company of the 261st Infantry, 65th Division, who participated in the liberation of prisoners on a death march from the Mauthausen concentration camp on May 4, 1945. He describes his company's movement and a story he heard when the reserve troops tried to get bread from a local bakery for the newly liberated prisoners.
People
- Tague, Don.
Corporate Bodies
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 65th
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Austria--Mauthausen.
Genre
- Document
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