LeRoy Petersohn oral history interview

This is an oral history interview with Holocaust concentration camp liberator LeRoy Petersohn. Petersohn was a medic with the 11th Armored Division, which liberated Mauthausen-Gusen on May 5, 1945. His unit was called to the camp, and an English-speaking prisoner led Petersohn around the camp, including the crematorium and the barracks. While going through one of the women\u27s barracks, Petersohn found a woman with a seven-week-old baby, born in another camp; the baby had a skin infection and needed immediate treatment. He fetched a doctor and they surgically cleaned the wounds. Petersohn stayed in the camp for five days, treating prisoners. In 2005, he was reunited with Hana Berger Moran, who had been the baby he saved, at the sixtieth anniversary of Mauthausen\u27s liberation. Petersohn frequently speaks to schoolchildren, and has been featured in two other books. In this interview, he also tells of some other wartime experiences, including a close call at the Battle of the Bulge