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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated May 12, 1961 partially reads, "They were together on April 15, 1945. They were in Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army, 120th Evacuation Hospital Unit. Buchenwald had been liberated two days before. 'We arrived early in the morning. It was still dark,' said Mrs. Hoyt. 'People in the camps began coming out in droves. We couldn't tell who was living or who was dead,' said Miss Wollenhaupt. 'The living looked like the dead.'" Seen in the photograph are Miss Wollenhaupt, nurse supervisor, left and Mrs. John T. Hoyt, director of nurses, both at the Valley Doctors Hospital in North Hollywood.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Valley Doctors Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation Nurses--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Injections, Intravenous--California--Los Angeles Hospitals--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles) North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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