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Oral history interview with Clarice MacLeod

Oral History | Digitized | RG Number: RG-50.344.0007

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    Oral history interview with Clarice MacLeod

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    Interview Summary
    Clarice MacLeod, born in Philadelphia, New York (a village in Jefferson County) in 1917, describes her childhood; her decision to become a nurse; going to nurse training at House of the Samaritan in Watertown, NY in 1935; going to basic training in Atlantic City, NJ; being sent to South Carolina then sailing overseas; arriving in Greenock, Scotland on December 22; the journey across and how she stayed with 18 other girls in a stateroom in the RMS Queen Elizabeth; going to Alteringham, England (possibly Altrincham, England) then France, Belgium, and Germany with the 131st Evacuation Hospital; treating the wounded from the battle field in Germany; working in the operating room as an anesthetist; her work in the operating room and other roles she had had in hospitals prior to the war; off duty activities; how the colonel told them they did not have to go to the concentration camp and everyone but one person went; her first impressions of camp Gusen; the burials for the dead prisoners; staying in houses; how some of the prisoners left upon liberation; seeing the Mauthausen quarry; the mental and physical conditions of the prisoners and their tendency to hoard food; being separated from the army in October 1945 and being recalled in 1951; her reflections on the Holocaust; and how she has not encountered any Holocaust deniers.
    Interviewee
    Clarice MacLeod
    Interviewer
    Neenah Ellis
    Date
    interview:  1995 July 15

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    1 sound cassette (90 min.).

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    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    Neenah Ellis, on the behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, conducted the interview with Clarice MacLeod on July 15, 1995 in West Park, New York.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
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    2023-11-16 08:27:44
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