The papers consist of photocopies of a scrapbook and other materials which relate to Oscar Roth's military service during World War II. The scrapbook contains photographs taken after the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Selected photoprints of them are included in the papers as is a copy of Roth's translation into English of the confession given by the camp's commandant Franz Ziereis. Oscar Roth was educated at the University of Vienna and was a United States Army medical officer during World War II. He was in an advance party which entered the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria soon after the camp was liberated. After leaving the army Roth returned to New Haven, Connecticut, where he practiced medicine.
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