Dachau by Elmer Joachim

Identifier
irn501925
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.A.0179
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501925

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.

David Sheldon donated Dachau by Elmer Joachim to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 1998. David Sheldon purchased the memoir at a flea market.

Scope and Content

Dachau by Elmer Joachim is a five page memoir about the reactions of a United States soldier, Elmer Joachim, to his arrival in the Dachau concentration camp on May 3, 1945.

System of Arrangement

The memoir is arranged in a single seriers.

People

  • Joachim, Elmer.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
  • Dachau (Germany)
  • Holocaust survivors.
  • Holocaust victims.
  • 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.