Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
August 2008
Abstract
Ventura De La Torre was a truck driver in the 80th Infantry Division, which liberated Buchenwald on April 12, 1945. One of the division's original members, he arrived in Europe in August 1944; their first combat was at Argentan later that month. In this interview, De La Torre describes going into Buchenwald and seeing the prisoners, and his reaction to them.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Infantry Division 80th, Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:11:44; 9 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Weimar (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00025
Recommended Citation
De La Torre, Ventura, "Ventura De La Torre Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 19.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/19
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