Clayton Shedivetz letter
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Carol Stevens
Carol Stevens donated this letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on 10 August 2009.
Scope and Content
Consists of one letter, four double-sided pages, written by Clayton Lee Shedivetz, a member of the United States Army, on 14 June 1945. In the letter, Mr. Shedivetz describes taking a tour, with a former inmate guiding him, of the Buchenwald concentration camp; the history of the camp, and what he witnessed there. He urges his wife to keep the letter because he felt the visit was very important.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Letter.
- Document