Paul W. Himan Jr. narrative
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Patricia E. Himan-Halachoulis
Gift of the family of Paul Himan, represented by his daughter Patricia Himan-Halachoulis, to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
Scope and Content
Narrative typescript text, one page, written by Paul Himan, a soldier stationed in Germany with the U.S. Army, describing his responses to his visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp following its liberation. The text, dated 6 May 1945, and sent to his mother in the United States, describes the living conditions of prisoners at the camp, how a liberated prisoner gave him a tour of the camp and described his own experiences there, the crematoria at the camp, and Himan's feelings about Germans following his tour of this camp.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Ms. Patricia E. Himan-Halachoulis
Subjects
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Soldiers--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
Genre
- Document