Irving P. Eisner correspondence

Identifier
irn37286
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.16.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn37286

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Stewart Eisner

Stewart Eisner donated his father's letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 1, 2009.

Scope and Content

Consists of one letter, four pages, written on May 15, 1945, by Irving Phillip Eisner, a Jewish soldier in the American Army. In the letter, Mr. Eisner described what he witnessed touring the Buchenwald concentration camp and asked his father to pass along a message from a survivor to a family member living in the United States.

Subjects

  • Concentration camps--Germany-Buchenwald.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.