Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
November 2008
Abstract
Thomas E. Harvey was a member of the 11th Armored Division, which liberated Mauthausen on May 6, 1945. Harvey and his unit spent a few hours in the camp, witnessing bodies, the crematoria, and some emaciated survivors; an engineering battalion was right behind them to bury the remains. Harvey also helped liberate several thousand prisoners on a death march near Cham, Germany.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Armored Division 11th, Mauthausen (Concentration camp), Death marches
Extent
00:21:44; 20 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Mauthausen (Austria); Cham (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00055
Recommended Citation
Harvey, Thomas E., "Thomas E. Harvey Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 45.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/45
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