Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
August 2008
Abstract
Monroe "Monty" Nachman was a member of the 103rd Infantry Division, which liberated Landsberg on April 27, 1945. The camp consisted of several huts inside a wire fence, with bodies all over the place; they could smell the camp long before they saw it. Nachman spoke with a few of the prisoners while they were there, which was about an hour. About forty-five minutes after they left, they found a death march on its way to Dachau and killed the SS guards. After the war, Nachman was assigned to the Counter Intelligence Corps, serving as an interpreter. In this interview, Nachman also discusses his life after the war and the effect it has had on him over the last sixty-five years. He is very active at his local VA and with the Jewish War Veterans.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Jewish veterans, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Infantry Division 103rd, Landsberg (Concentration camp), Death marches, Dachau (Concentration camp), Translators
Extent
01:07:25; 32 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Landsberg am Lech (Germany); Dachau (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00093
Recommended Citation
Nachman, Monroe Isadore, "Monroe Isadore Nachman Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 81.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/81
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