"Afternoon in Buchenwald"
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Henry Tonn
Peggy Speelman sent this manuscript to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Sept. 2011, which she obtained from Henry Tonn, who wrote it in 2009.
Scope and Content
Consists of one typescript article, 9 pages, in English, entitled "Afternoon in Buchenwald" by Richard Daughtry, written by Henry F. Tonn. In the article, Tonn describes World War II veteran Richard Daughtry's experience visiting Buchenwald in April 1945 after the liberation, including his tour of the camp, where he witnessed the victims still in the crematorium, emaciated survivors, and items made of human skin, which he was told were made under the orders of Ilse Koch.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mr. Henry F. Tonn
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Concentration camps--Germany-Buchenwald.
Genre
- Document