Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
June 2008
Abstract
Dorothy Maroon was a nurse with the 131st Evacuation Hospital, which was one of the units sent to Gusen after its liberation on May 5, 1945. At the same time the war ended, they received word of the camp and were dispatched there to take care of the prisoners. 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. Maroon and the other nurses tended the patients, many of whom were taken back to their countries of origin, and saw the crematoria and other places in the camp. She and the other nurses were very close, and Maroon used to host their annual reunions.
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
00:23:25; 18 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Sankt Georgen an der Gusen (Austria)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00086
Recommended Citation
Maroon, Dorothy, "Dorothy Maroon Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 74.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/74
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