Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
August 2008
Abstract
Tarmo Holma was a member of the 11th Armored Division, which liberated Mauthausen and Gusen on May 5-6, 1945, although Holma's company was not at the camps, having been assigned to guard the road around Linz, Austria. Holma did, however, encounter prisoners from Flossenbürg on a death march from that camp. On the road near Cham, Germany, Holma, who was seated on top of his tank, could see some activity on the road, which turned out to be thousands of prisoners. It took his unit the entire day to pass through the crowd. Holma is frequently invited to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Remembrance Day activities and is featured on the museum's website.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Death marches, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Armored Division 11th, Mauthausen (Concentration camp), Gusen (Concentration camp), Death marches
Extent
00:36:33; 19 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Mauthausen (Austria); Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (Austria); Linz (Austria); Flossenbürg (Germany); Cham (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00060
Recommended Citation
Holma, Tarmo, "Tarmo Holma Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 50.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/50
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