Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
April 2008
Abstract
Jack Kerins was a member of the 63rd Infantry Division, which liberated Landsberg on April 29, 1945. The division went over in late 1944 and saw its first combat in the Battle of the Bulge and proceeded through Germany on the Rhineland Campaign, where Kerins was given a field promotion to second lieutenant. The division encountered Landsberg while chasing the Germans, and were told to stop at the camp, which Kerins decided to see for himself. He describes the prisoners, including an encounter with one particular man, whom the division took to a nearby house to find clothes. In this interview, he also describes some of his other wartime experiences.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Battle of the Ardennes (1944-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Infantry Division 63rd, Landsberg (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:54:55; 25 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Ardennes; Landsberg am Lech (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00067
Recommended Citation
Kerins, Jack, "Jack Kerins Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 56.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/56
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