Jesse Lafoon interview
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Title
Jesse Lafoon interview
Creator
Solomon, Kaethe (Interviewer)
Lafoon, Jesse (Interviewee)
Description
Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Lafoon served with the 54th Field Hospital, [7th Army?], and witnessed the liberation of Dachau. He also worked in a field hospital near a displaced persons camp in Goppingen run by UNRRA after the end of the war. Place of interview: Fairburn, Georgia.
Identifier
06080100CFLI00057001000
06080100CFLI00057001000.PDF
Subject
United States--Army--Field Hospital, 54th
Dachau (Concentration camp)
United States--Army--Army, 7th
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Solomon, Kaethe
Lafoon, Jesse
Coverage
Goppingen (Germany)
Source
35 pages (oral history transcript) Typescript.
Date
10 - 12 - 1980
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); 66 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.
Files
Collection
Citation
Solomon, Kaethe (Interviewer) and Lafoon, Jesse (Interviewee), “Jesse Lafoon interview,” Witness to the Holocaust, accessed October 31, 2025, https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/items/show/66.