Oral history interview with Charles Olsen
Extent and Medium
1 sound cassette, analog
Creator(s)
- Mary Cook
- Nita Howton
Biographical History
Mary Cook donated the oral history interview with Charles Olsen 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
- Olsen, Charles, 1914-
- Nita Howton
- Charles Olsen
- Mary Cook
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Airborne Division, 82nd
- Wöbbelin (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Massacres--Germany.
- Soldiers--United States--Interviews.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Elbe River (Czech Republic and Germany)
- Smell.
- Dead.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Military intelligence--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Photography.
- Ludwigslust (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Concentration camp inmates--Germany.
- Intelligence officers--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
Genre
- Oral History
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