Thomas Spruill and Jesse Lafoon interview
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Title
Thomas Spruill and Jesse Lafoon interview
Creator
Lafoon, Jesse (Interviewee)
Spruill, Thomas J. (Interviewee)
Crawford, Fred Roberts (Interviewer)
Hallett, Jeffrey (Interviewer)
Description
Content Note: Transcript of a "Witness to the Holocaust" television series interview (6/4/79). The interview was transcribed as part of the International Liberators Conference. Lafoon served with the 45th Field Hospital. Spruill served with the 191st Tank Battalion in support of a regiment of the 42nd Infantry Division. Both witnessed the liberation of Dachau. Location of interview: Atlanta, Georgia.
Identifier
06080100CFLC00023001000
06080100CFLC00023001000.PDF
Subject
Dachau (Concentration camp)
United States--Army--Infantry Division, 42nd
United States--Army--Tank Battalion, 191st
United States--Army--Army, 7th
United States--Army--Field Hospital, 45th
Lafoon, Jesse
Spruill, Thomas J.
Crawford, Fred Roberts
Hallett, Jeffrey
Source
23 pages (oral history transcript) Typescript.
Date
6 - 4 - 1979
Contributor
Emory University
Encoded as part of the SAGE Digital Archive Project: A Collaborative Project between the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, 1997-2000.
Funding for the SAGE Digital Archive Project was provided by a local foundation.
Rights
Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.
Relation
PDF file (72 dpi).
Format
PDF (72 dpi); 3100 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
Files
Collection
Citation
Lafoon, Jesse (Interviewee) et al., “Thomas Spruill and Jesse Lafoon interview,” Witness to the Holocaust, accessed November 25, 2024, https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/items/show/124.