Robert E. Cone collection
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Robert E. Cone
Biographical History
First Sergeant Joseph Cohen was a member of the 260th Antitank Division and participated in the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Mauthausen concentration camps,
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.
Robert E. Cone donated the Robert E. Cone collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 1998.
Scope and Content
The Robert E. Cone collecton consists of two letters from First Sergeant Joseph Cone, 260th Antitank Division, who participated in the liberation of Ohrdruf and Mauthausen concentration camps, to his wife, Ruth Cone, about liberation.
System of Arrangement
The Robert E. Cone collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Cone, Robert E.
- Cone, Ruth.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Europe--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Soldiers' writings, American.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.
- Correspondence.