1981 International Liberators Conference collection Gusen I, II, & III
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Scope and Content
Contains testimonies and letters relating to the liberation of the three Gusen subcamps of Mauthausen. Includes information about the methods of killing used in the camps, the various types of prisoners, the medical experiments conducted on pregnant prisoners, and activities of the 131st U.S. Evacuation Hospital in the area of Linz, Austria. Also included are name lists of nurses assigned to the Gusen camps after liberation.
Corporate Bodies
- Gusen II (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Army, 3rd
- United States. Army. Armored Division, 11th
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 131st
- Gusen III (Concentration camp)
- Gusen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Physicians.
- Crematoriums.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Women concentration camp inmates.
- Starvation.
- Political prisoners.
- Nursing.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Diseases.
- Linz (Austria)
- Gas chambers.
Genre
- Letters.
- Document
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