Interview with Harvey Cohen, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was involved in the liberation of a concentration camp.

In 1990, Louisa Weinrib of Montgomery interviewed Cohen about this experience. From 1990 to 1992, Weinrib interviewed five Jewish World War II veterans and nine Jews who were either Holocaust survivors or descendents of survivors. (The term ""Holocaust survivor"" is defined by th...

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Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/records/id/509
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Summary:In 1990, Louisa Weinrib of Montgomery interviewed Cohen about this experience. From 1990 to 1992, Weinrib interviewed five Jewish World War II veterans and nine Jews who were either Holocaust survivors or descendents of survivors. (The term ""Holocaust survivor"" is defined by the Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors as a ""person who was displaced, persecuted, and/or discriminated against by the racial, religious, ethnic, and political policies of the Nazis and their Allies. In addition to former inmates of concentration camps and ghettos this includes refugees, people in hiding, etc."")