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Captain John Henry Baker Jr. interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Captain Baker served with Company B, 260th Infantry [Regiment] of the 65th Division of the 3rd Army and witnessed the liberation of Ohrdruf and Mauthausen. Location of interview: Savannah, Georgia.
Franklin Lee Clark interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Clark served with the 3rd Army, Headquarter Battery, 11th Armored Division Artillery, and witnessed the liberation of Mauthausen in Austria. Location of interview: Cartersville, Georgia.
George E. King interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. King served with a tank unit of the 11th Armored Division, 3rd Army, and witnessed the liberation of Mauthausen. Place of interview: Penbroke Farms, Florida.
Calvin Coolidge Paul interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Paul served as a Corporal in the 34th Squadron of the 17th Bombardment Group and witnessed the liberation of Mauthausen. Location of interview: Jonesboro, Georgia.
Calvin Coolidge Paul diary excerpt
Content Note: Paul served as a Corporal in the 34th Squadron of the 17th Bombardment Group and witnessed the liberation of Mauthausen.
Dr. Richard L. Schley interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Schley served as a battalion surgeon and witnessed the liberation of Ohrdruf. Later, he toured Mauthausen and Gusen. Location of interview: Savannah, Georgia.
Jaap Grooen interview
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Grooen was born in Belgium in 1925 and raised in Holland. After the Germans occupied Holland, he and some other teenagers published an anti-German underground newspaper. Beginning in 1940, he…
Marie Ellifritz interview
Content Note: Transcript of a video recording. Ellifritz served with the 130th Evacuation Hospital as a nurse and witnessed the liberation of Mauthausen. Location of interview: Washington, DC (International Liberators' Conference).
The entrance to Mauthausen with a banner reading "...Espanoles Antifacitas... Saludan a las Fuerzas Liberadoras..."
Content Note: The banners hang from the top of the wall. It reads "The Spanish Anti-Fascists Salute the Liberating Forces" and was hung after the Second Armored Division of the Third Army liberated the camp. The main doors to the camp are closed. …
"Grave dug by Germans" [Mauthausen]
Content Note: Title from writing on reverse. Corpses of prisoners lie in a row in a deep trench. Numbered 18 on the reverse.