Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
May 2008
Abstract
Herbert Cohen was a member of the 20th Armored Division, which liberated Dachau on April 29, 1945. His unit also liberated the Hadamar Euthanasia Center and Mühldorf, a sub-camp of Dachau. They did not spend much time at Hadamar as they ran through the hospital looking for the guards, but they did go through Dachau more slowly. Cohen saw the crematorium at Dachau and spoke to some of the prisoners in Yiddish, and he also talked to the townspeople, who denied knowing anything about the camp. During this interview, he reads some excerpts from his division's history book.
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 20th, Dachau (Concentration camp), Mühldorf (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:36:54; 23 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Dachau (Germany); Mühldorf (Germany); Hadamar (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00146
Recommended Citation
Cohen, Herbert, "Herbert Cohen Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 128.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/128
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