Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
September 2008
Abstract
Harry Snodgrass was a driver with the First Army. Arriving the day after D-Day, his responsibility was to take personnel where they needed to go. On April 12, 1945, he was driving a lieutenant back from an appointment when they saw some dead cows, and the lieutenant told him to follow the road, which led into a Buchenwald sub-camp. There were no Americans there, only prisoners. Snodgrass talked to one man, who showed him a building where the guards killed people. They spent only an hour at the camp as there was nothing they could do for the survivors. Snodgrass frequently speaks to schools and other audiences about the Holocaust. In this interview, his wife Ruth also comments, describing the first time her husband told her about Buchenwald.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Army 1st, Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:27:15; 18 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Weimar (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00129
Recommended Citation
Snodgrass, Harry, "Harry Snodgrass Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 114.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/114
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