Leonard S. Holocaust testimony
Abstract
Videotape testimony of Leonard S., who served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts fighting in Germany; liberating Nordhausen; transfer to Patton's 3rd Army; entering Dachau; seeing the crematoria and piles of human bones; liberating Eger; seeing severely emaciated prisoners and corpses stacked on flatbed trucks; and administering Bamberg displaced persons camp where they distributed Red Cross supplies meant for U.S. prisoners of war. He shows documents and objects from the war.
Extent and Medium
1 videocassette
Conditions Governing Access
This testimony is open with permission.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright has been transferred to the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. Use of this testimony requires permission of the Fortunoff Video Archive.
Rules and Conventions
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Process Info
compiled by Staff of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
People
- S., Leonard.
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Nordhausen (Concentration camp)
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
- United States. -- Army. -- Army, 3rd.
Subjects
- Liberator.
- Refugee camps.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
- Men.
- Video tapes.
Places
- Bamberg (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Eger (Czechoslovakia : Concentration camp)
- United States -- Armed Forces -- Europe.
Genre
- Oral histories. -- aat