1981 International Liberators Conference collection Langenstein
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Scope and Content
Contains the liberator testimony of Maeceille B. (Pless) Beem concerning the liberation of Langenstein, a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp. Beem describes her work as a nurse with the 20th Field Hospital Unit attached to the 9th United States Army and the conditions of prisoners liberated from Langenstein.
People
- Beem, Maeceille B. Pless.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Field Hospitals
- Langenstein (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Army, 9th
- Langenstein-Zwieberge (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Concentration camp inmates--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.
- Nurses--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Military nursing--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
Genre
- Document
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