Colin McCrae letter
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Susan Mudgett
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Susan Mudgett donated the Colin McCrae letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.
Scope and Content
Colin McCrae letter consists of a typed letter dated May 10, 1945, 2 pages, written by Colin McCrae and sent to his parents, Raymund and Gladys Shea. Colin McCrae, who was serving with the United States Army in Europe, describes his experiences near Münster, Germany; the news regarding V-E day; the reaction of displaced persons who had been recently liberated from forced labor; and what he witnessed when he toured the Dachau concentration camp at the beginning of May 1945.
System of Arrangement
The Colin McCrae letter is arranged in a single series.
People
- McCrae, Raymund.
- McCrae, Colin.
- McCrae, Gladys.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- V-E Day, 1945.
- Germany.
- Displaced persons--Europe.
- Soldiers--United States.
- Dachau (Germany)
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Letter.