Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
July 2008
Abstract
Milton R. Silva was a truck driver with the 120th Evacuation Hospital, which was one of the units sent to Buchenwald after its liberation on April 12, 1945. When they arrived at the camp, they set up their gear and then walked to the camp's entrance where they saw the survivors walking around as well as the bodies in the crematorium. Silva also saw some prisoners beating a guard who had disguised himself as an inmate. Silva spent about two weeks at Buchenwald with the 120th Evac, where his job was to transport prisoners to the hospital. He was also sent to move evac hospitals into Nordhausen and Mauthausen when those camps were liberated.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital 120th, 120th, Buchenwald (Concentration camp), Military medicine, Nordhausen (Concentration camp), Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:50:31; 23 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Mauthausen (Austria); Nordhausen (Thuringia, Germany); Weimar (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00127
Recommended Citation
Silva, Milton R., "Milton R. Silva Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 112.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/112
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