- Collection:
- Living Atlanta oral history collection
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Louis Geffen, 1979 August 21
- Creator:
- Geffen, Louis, 1904-2001
- Contributor to Resource:
- Kuhn, Clifford
- Publisher:
- Living Atlanta oral history project records, MSS 637, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
- Date of Original:
- 1979-08-21
- Subject:
- Jews--Georgia--Atlanta--Interviews
Education--Georgia--Atlanta - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Oral history interview with Louis Geffen interviewed by Clifford Kuhn on 1979 August 21.
"Louis Geffen (1904-2001), son of Tobias and Sara Geffen, was born in New York City and moved to Atlanta with his parents in 1910. He attended Emory University (BA, 1923) and Columbia University Law School (JD, 1927), and then practiced law in Atlanta (1927-1989). From January 1941-March 1946, Louis Geffen served as a judge advocate in the United States Army (310th Military Government Group, 3rd Army), rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Most of his assignments were in the United States, but at the conclusion of World War II, he was sent as part of a military government team to join General Douglas McArthur in Manila and then in Japan. In Japan, he served as chief prosecutor at the Yokohama war crimes trials primarily preparing the prosecution of General Masaharu Homma, who instigated the Bataan death march. Upon returning to the United States, he helped found and served as Commander of the Jewish War Veterans Post 112. Louis was also involved in several organizations serving on the Atlanta Board of Education (1935-1937), as an officer in the Zionist Organization of America, as president of the Southeastern Region of Young Judaea, and for a number of years as pro bono counsel for Shearith Israel. "--Finding aid, Louis and Anna Geffen family papers, circa 1898-2010, Emory University, MARBL. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:geh_livatl_ahc-637-056-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/livingatlanta/do:ahc-637-056-001
- Rights Holder:
- ©WRFG
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Living Atlanta oral history project records, MSS 637, Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center
- Extent:
- 1 interview : circa 68 minutes
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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