Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
June 2008
Abstract
Phyllis Law was a nurse with the 131st Evacuation Hospital, which was one of the units sent to Mauthausen-Gusen after its liberation on May 5, 1945. The nurses did not go into the camp for several days after they arrived there and, once they had, stayed in the officers' quarters at some distance from the camp. Law's main job at first was to distribute medication, but a series of accidents limited her interaction with the prisoners. The 131st Evac Hospital was at the camp for two months before returning to the United States.
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 131st, Gusen (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:29:45; 20 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Mauthausen (Austria); Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (Austria)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00075
Recommended Citation
Law, Phyllis Lamont, "Phyllis Law Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 63.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/63
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