David J. Phillips memoir

Identifier
irn501845
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0443
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501845

Extent and Medium

folder

1

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.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archive received the memoir from David Phillips in December 1997 via Amy Rubin of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department.

Scope and Content

The David J. Philips memoir consists of a typewritten memoir outlining his experiences as a paratrooper with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, as well his accounts of liberating two concentration camps in Landsberg, Germany.

System of Arrangement

The David J. Philips memoir is arranged in a single series.

People

  • Philips, David J.

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Concentration camp inmates.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
  • Germany.
  • Landsberg (Germany)

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.