John M. Holocaust testimony

Identifier
HVT 0908
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Abstract

Videotape testimony of John M., who served in the United States military during World War II. He recounts attending officer training school in 1941; attachment to an anti-aircraft regiment; transfer to England, then Oran; landing in Sicily; transfer to Marseille; moving through Germany; observing emaciated prisoners in striped uniforms and prisoners of war in Seeshaupt; corpses piled in box cars; moving to Landsberg; corpses everywhere; photographing the camp; guarding German prisoners in Schwabmu?nchen; and preparing a barrack to contain war criminals in Kornwestheim. He shows photographs.

Extent and Medium

2 videocassettes

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

  • M., John.

Corporate Bodies

  • Landsberg (Concentration camp)
  • United States. -- Army.

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American.
  • Prisoners of war -- Germany.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
  • Men.
  • Video tapes.

Places

  • Seeshaupt (Germany)
  • Schwabmünchen (Germany)
  • United States -- Armed Forces -- Europe.
  • Kornwestheim (Germany)

Genre

  • Oral histories. -- aat
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