Anton Litwin collection
Extent and Medium
box
folders
1
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this scrapbook from Anton Litwin on August 19, 2002.
Scope and Content
Consists of publications, scrapbook pages, photographs, postcards, and reports originally owned by Anton Litwin, who was a member of the War Crimes Branch of the United States Third Army, stationed at Dachau. Includes his identity passes mounted on scrapbook paper; mass-produced postcards; Signal Corps liberation photographs and copies of mass-published liberation photographs; and original photographs taken after the liberation of Mauthausen. Also includes an English copy of the confession of Mauthausen commandant Franz Ziereis; a report of testimony of former Mauthausen prisoners; a May 1945 map of Dachau; and an oversized post-liberation advertisement for a French bank. Includes a copy of the SS Dachau booklet; the booklet "What Shall be Done with the War Criminals"; a souvenir booklet for the American tour of Hitler's armored car; and the May 8, 1945 issue of "Stars and Stripes" newspaper declaring the end of the war.
Subjects
- War crime trials--Germany--Dachau.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Postcards.
- Document
- Photographs.
- Publications.