Louis Eiseman letter describing his personal impressions of Nazi concentration camps
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Creator(s)
- Louis Eiseman
Biographical History
Louis Eiseman (d. 1986) was a former Captain in the U.S. Army Air Forces, a member of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II, and postwar provost marshal at Dachau. He was married to Sarah Eiseman,
Archival History
Sarah Eiseman
Acquisition
The original letter was written by Louis Eiseman in May 1945 and was addressed to his youngest sister. The sister passed the letter on to Sarah Eiseman, the donor, who made several photocopies of the letter and sent them to several family members. Mrs. Eiseman also sent a photocopy of the letter to Suzy Goldstein of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections and Acquisitions Department in Jan. 1993. That department retained that copy of the letter for its files, while forwarding another photocopy to the United States Holocaust Research Institute Archives in Jan. 1993.
Scope and Content
Consists of a copy of a letter written by Louis Eiseman to his younger sister in May 1945, relating Eiseman's general impressions of the sub-human conditions in the Nazi camps near the end of World War II. The letter describes children in the camps; starvation of prisoners; gassing and cremation of camp prisoners; the liquidation of Lidice, Czechoslovakia; and the torture and killing of American troops by the Germans.
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
Subjects
- Lidice Massacre, Lidice, Czech Republic, 1942.
- Burial.
- Crematoriums.
- Starvation.
- Gas chambers.
- Child concentration camp inmates.
- Diseases.
- Sanitation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
- Lidice (Czech Republic)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
Genre
- Letters.
- Document