Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
August 2008
Abstract
Bob Fasnacht was originally a soldier in the 70th Infantry Division, but was transferred to the 80th Infantry Division when the Battle of the Bulge started in 1944. The 80th liberated Buchenwald on April 12, 1945 and Ebensee, a sub-camp of Mauthausen, on May 4, 1945. Fasnacht was present at the Ebensee liberation. A photographer before being drafted, he accompanied some units that were headed to Ebensee, where he took some pictures of the camp. Fasnacht frequently speaks about his experiences to schools and other groups; at one such event, he met a man who had been one of the Ebensee prisoners he helped liberate.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, Battle of the Ardennes (1944-1945), United States. Army. Infantry Division 70th, United States. Army. Infantry Division 80th, Buchenwald (Concentration camp), Ebensee (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:28:20; 16 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Ardennes; Mauthausen (Austria); Ebensee (Austria)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00040
Recommended Citation
Fasnacht, Bob, "Bob Fasnacht Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 32.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/32
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