George Pierce Ricketts interview

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Title

George Pierce Ricketts interview

Creator

Mell, Lorraine K. (Interviewer)
Ricketts, George Pierce (Interviewee)

Description

Content Note: Transcript of an audio recording. Ricketts served with the Company C, 305th Medical Batallion, 80th Infantry Division as a PFC. He witnessed the liberation of a camp between Frankfurt and Limbach (which he thinks was Buchenwald). Location of interview: Riverdale, Georgia.

Identifier

06080100CFLI00078001000
06080100CFLI00078001000.PDF

Subject

United States--Army--Infantry Division, 80th
Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
United States--Army--Medical Battalion, 305th--Company C
United States--Army--Army, 3rd
Mell, Lorraine K.
Ricketts, George Pierce

Source

12 pages (oral history transcript) Typescript with handwritten edits.

Date

1 - 7 - 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.

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Researchers should contact the repository for terms governing the use of the collection.

Relation

PDF file (72 dpi).

Format

PDF (72 dpi); 29 KB Digital image created as part of SAGE project, 1998.

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Citation

Mell, Lorraine K. (Interviewer) and Ricketts, George Pierce (Interviewee), “George Pierce Ricketts interview,” Witness to the Holocaust, accessed October 31, 2025, https://witness.digitalscholarship.emory.edu/items/show/85.

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