Oral history interview with Leon Hawkersmith
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette, analog
Creator(s)
- Nita Howton
- Mary Cook
Biographical History
Mary Cook donated the oral history interview with Leon Hawkersmith 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
- Hawkersmith, Leon, 1920-
- Leon Hawkersmith
- Nita Howton
- Mary Cook
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Air Forces
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Stalag XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf
Subjects
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Soldiers--United States--Interviews.
- Starvation.
- Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Linz (Austria)
- Gunners, Aerial.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Prisoners of war--Personal narratives.
- United States--Armed Forces--Aerial gunners.
- Combat.
- Prisoners--Abuse of--Germany.
- England.
- Italy.
- Prisoners of war--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- Death marches.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- B-24 (Bomber)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
Genre
- Oral History
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