Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
3-21-2022
Date
March 2008
Abstract
Anthony "Tony" Cardinale, Jr. was a radio operator with the 42nd Infantry Division, which liberated Dachau on April 29, 1945. The day they found the camp, he was in a Jeep with his regiment's colonel, Henry Luongo. They saw a train just outside the camp, containing thousands of bodies: prisoners shipped from Buchenwald to Dachau. Cardinale, following the colonel, walked past the cars and saw a hand moving. He shouted to another colonel, Don Downard, who pulled the man out of the train and handed him to Cardinale. The man, the only survivor from the train, was taken to a first aid station; Cardinale lost track of him and was never able to get any information about his fate. After rescuing the prisoner, they continued walking around the camp, witnessing the prisoners and the crematorium.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Infantry Division 42nd, Dachau (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:35:36; 19 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Dachau (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00016
Recommended Citation
Cardinale, Anthony C. Jr., "Anthony "Tony" Cardinale Jr. Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 13.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/13
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