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Kenneth Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1485)

Title
Kenneth Z. Holocaust testimony (HVT-1485) [videorecording] / interviewed by Susan Rosenstein and Roberta Kahn, March 22, 1990.
Created
Baltimore, Md. : Baltimore Jewish Council, 1990.
Physical Description
1 videorecording (1 hr., 5 min.) : col.
Language
English
Summary
Videotape testimony of Kenneth Z., who was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1917. He recalls his medical education; marriage in 1941; enlistment in the Army Air Force in 1943; and serving as the surgeon for the 8th Armored Division's 399th Field Artillery as they crossed the English Channel in January 1945, progressed through France, Holland, and Germany, and crossed the Rhine on March 27th. He recounts establishing a medical station in Langenstein; entering a nearby concentration camp; his horror at the inmates' condition and mass graves; efforts to help the prisoners; witnessing the killing of a Nazi camp official by some prisoners; and later caring for residents of a displaced persons camp. He shows photographs taken in the concentration camp.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Kenneth Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1485). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Cite as
Kenneth Z. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-1485). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Oral histories (document genres)
Occupation
Physicians.
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