Alvin J. Schoenhals letter

Identifier

irn501698

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1997.A.0261

Level of Description

Item

Languages

English

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501698

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by Alvin J. Schoenhals

Scope and Content

Contains a letter, five pages, written by United States Army Sgt. Alvin J. Schoenhals to his family describing what he saw when he visited the recently-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp on June 14, 1945.

Corporate Bodies

Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Genre

Letter.
Document

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