Jules Barrash letter
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Jules M. Barrash donated his letter to the to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.
Scope and Content
The Jules Barrash letter consists of a typed testimony, written as a letter to family, by Jules Barrash, a Jewish-American liberator of the Buchenwald concentration camp, April 16, 1945. In the testimony, he describes the camp physically, his impressions taking a tour from a newly liberated French prisoner, and the hospital before bringing the other soldiers in his outfit in for a tour. He wrote that what he saw at Buchenwald showed him the reason they were fighting the war.
System of Arrangement
The Jules Barrash letter is arranged as a single series.
People
- Barrash, Jules M.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Soldiers--United States.
- Holocaust victims.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
Genre
- Memoirs.
- Personal narratives.
- Document
- Correspondence.