Camp Gusen, Austria, depositions, 1945.

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Camp Gusen, Austria, depositions, 1945.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173701718

Two typewritten accounts of Nazi atrocities at an Austrian concentration camp evacuated prior to the end of World War II. One is the confession of Franz Ziereis, commander-in-chief of 45 camps including Gusen; the other was written by an unidentified U.S. Army nurse. Photographs and photocopied photographs depict atrocities described in the nurse's account.

0.1 c.f. (1 folder) and5 photographs (1 folder).

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6925966

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Ziereis, Franz.

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During World War II, Sidney D. Gell was a member of the U.S. Army's 131st Evacuation Hospital, where Ziereis was taken after he was shot. Gell was part of the team which translated Ziereis' confession into English. Gell currently lives in California. From the description of Confessions of an SS Killer deposition. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). WorldCat record id: 86133519 ...

Gusen (Concentration camp)

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