Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
September 2008
Abstract
Tom Malan was a mortarman in the 63rd Infantry Division, which liberated Landsberg on April 29, 1945. En route to Munich, they found the camp. The gates were open and the guards had fled, but before leaving they had set some of the buildings on fire, with prisoners still inside. Malan gave one of them a piece of bread; the man could only eat a tiny morsel of it at a time. They did not find many survivors, and the camp was scattered with corpses. Malan stayed in Europe until 1946, playing trumpet in the 255th Regiment Band.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Infantry Division 63rd, Landsberg (Concentration camp), Trumpet players
Extent
00:20:00; 18 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Landsberg am Lech (Germany); Munich (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00083
Recommended Citation
Malan, Tom, "Tom Malan Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 71.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/71
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