Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
September 2008
Abstract
Albert R. Panebianco was a staff sergeant with the 45th Infantry Division, which liberated Dachau on April 29, 1945. While on the way to Munich, the battalion commander, Felix Sparks, received a call about the concentration camp and took one of his companies to investigate. Panebianco's company returned that evening and spent the night there; he walked around the camp, but did not go into the buildings. The following day, he was put in charge of guarding the women's camp at Allach, a nearby sub-camp. At Allach, he talked to one woman who told him about the camp and the conditions there. Panebianco did not speak about Dachau until the 1980s, and in 1997 he created a website about the 45th Division's role in liberating the camp, which he maintained until his death in 2010.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Infantry Division 45th, Dachau (Concentration camp), Allach (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:50:12; 24 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Dachau (Germany); Munich (Germany); Allach-Untermenzing (Munich, Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00098
Recommended Citation
Panebianco, Albert R., "Albert R. Panebianco Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 86.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/86
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