1981 International Liberators Conference collection Wallern (Volary), Czechoslovakia
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Scope and Content
Contains a copy of a letter written by Harry M. Morgan on April 1, 1981, describing the discovery of 150 Jewish women by the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the 5th United States Infantry Division in an abandoned factory in Wallern (Volary), Czechoslovakia. Morgan also explains that the 150 women were the survivors of an original 5,000 women whe were led on a death march from Grünberg in Schlesien, a Gross-Rosen subcamp.
People
- Morgan, Harry M.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 5th
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 26th
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Grünberg in Schlesien (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Volary (Czech Republic)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Death marches.
- Starvation.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.
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