Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Michael Hirsh
Publication Date
March 2022
Date
July 2008
Abstract
Eugene O'Neil was a member of the 80th Infantry Division, which liberated Buchenwald on April 12, 1945. He went to Europe as a replacement and joined the division in Belgium in January 1945 at the end of the Battle of the Bulge. His division came into the city of Weimar, and O'Neil and his unit stood outside the Buchenwald gate and saw the emaciated prisoners. As an infantryman, he did not go inside; his unit had to continue moving. O'Neil served in the Korean War as a member of the Naval Reserve, and was also in the D.C. Air National Guard before becoming a government worker.
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, Battle of the Ardennes (1944-1945), Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Extent
00:29:43; 14 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Ardennes; Weimar (Germany)
Language
English
Digital Date
2022
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
C65-00096
Recommended Citation
O'Neil, Eugene, "Eugene O'Neil Oral History Interview" (2022). Concentration Camp Liberators Oral History Project. 84.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/concentration_OH/84
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