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Author/Creator:K., Chester.
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Title:Chester K. Holocaust testimony (HVT-2409) [videorecording] / interviewed by Tobi Cooper and Enid Levi, April 27, 1994.
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Published/Created:Kansas City, Mo. : Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Inc., 1994.
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Physical Description:1 videorecording (52 min.) : col.
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Yale Holdings
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Call Number: MS 1322
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Digital testimony (mssa.hvt.2409)
For information on where you can view this digital testimony, click here.
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Location:LSF-Physical copy for request by library staff only
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Notes:2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
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Summary:Videotape testimony of Chester K., who enlisted in the United States Army in 1942; completed basic training in California; attended Officer Candidate School in North Carolina; served in Galveston, Texas; and completed his training in military intelligence. Mr. K. describes D-day; meeting General Patton; moving through France towards Germany; the Battle of the Bulge; entering Dachau on April 29, 1945, and later Allach, a subcamp of Dachau; his shock at seeing hundreds of corpses and the living conditions; attempts to help the survivors; speaking to them in Yiddish; their high death rate due to their inability to digest food; organizing a mourners' prayer with a Jewish chaplain; total lack of preparation for such an encounter; and his overwhelming desire to flee from such a horrifying place. Mr. K. relates preparing for six months to prosecute the commander of Dachau; interviewing survivors in trial preparation; and returning to the United States.
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Cite as:Chester K. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-2409). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
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Subjects:K., Chester.
Dachau (Concentration camp)
Video tapes.
Men.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
War crime trials--Germany.
United States--Armed Forces--Europe.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Liberator.
Allach (Germany : Concentration camp)
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Genre/Form:Oral histories (document genres)
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Also listed under:Cooper, Tobi, interviewer.
Levi, Enid, interviewer.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1091666