The Art Mainzer Story
Arthur Mainzer was a loving husband to the late Germaine Girardot and a beloved father to Christiane and Claudette. He touched the lives of many and will be deeply missed by his family and friends.
Military History:
Born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada, Arthur enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in November 1942. He completed training with the first Motion Picture Unit in Culver City, California, and was deployed to England in November 1943. Arthur arrived in France shortly after D-Day and documented six military campaigns throughout the war. He was part of the first camera crew to film the liberation and atrocities at Buchenwald Concentration Camp in April 1945.
Point of Interest: Milo plucks out one of the best heroic stories from Steven Spielberg’s documentary “Shooting War,” a story she knows intimately, the one about her dad’s younger brother, Art, who became a combat movie cameraman in WWII. Milo captures the essence of her uncle’s two-fold, ultimate life experiences happening almost simultaneous…love vs hatred and faith vs despair
