James Hoyt

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  • World War II veteran James Hoyt was one of the four soldiers who discovered the concentration camp Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. The discovery led to the liberation of the camp. Hoyt died on August 11, 2008 in his hometown Oxford, Iowa. He became 83 years old and was survived by a wife and six children.
  • The Oxford Project

    Hoyt rarely talked about the discovery of the Buchenwald camp, but he recently told his story to the journalist Stephen Bloom in the upcoming "The Oxford Project," which follows the residents in Oxford from 1984 to 2004.
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