Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
April 2009
Abstract
May Macdonald Horton was a nurse with the 120th Evacuation Hospital, which was one of the units sent to Buchenwald after its liberation on April 11, 1945. She was one of the chief nurses in charge of the operating rooms. The nurses did not go into the camp itself, since their commanding officer thought it was too horrible for them; instead, prisoners were brought to the field hospital, where they were treated. In this interview, Horton recounts her experiences at Buchenwald and also discusses how she became an army nurse.
Keywords
World War II (1939-1945), Holocaust (1939-1945), Concentration camps, Concentration camps--Liberation, Nurses, Veterans, Genocide, Crimes against humanity, United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital 120th, Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:26:30; 17 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Weimar (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00061
Recommended Citation
Horton, May Macdonald, "May Macdonald Horton Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 51.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/51
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