Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
September 2008
Abstract
George Sherman was a tank gunner in the 11th Armored Division, which liberated Mauthausen on May 6, 1945. They discovered the camp while looking for the Russian soldiers they were supposed to meet. They could smell the camp long before they arrived at the gates and could hear people yelling. His unit drove into the camp and stopped, seeing the barracks, the dead bodies, and the surviving prisoners; they radioed back to headquarters, and their officers joined them shortly afterward. Sherman was in the camp for about two hours before being sent to continue his mission. The first time he spoke publicly about Mauthausen was at an event sponsored by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; he was later interviewed by a reporter from his local newspaper.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Jewish veterans, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Armored Division 11th, Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:44:11; 18 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Mauthausen (Austria)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00126
Recommended Citation
Sherman, George, "George Sherman Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 111.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/111
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