Auschwitz/Dachau prisoner correspondence

Identifier
irn514458
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.94
Dates
1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1942
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The letters were deaccessioned from the Special Collections branch of the O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library at the University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN. They were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Jan. 14, 2004.

Scope and Content

Consists of four letters written home by prisoners on concentration camp stationery; three are from Dachau, those of Aleksy Bryniyszkiewicz, Soideusr Augustyniak, and Bonifacius Gozdricki, and one from Auschwitz, that of Georg Gusikiewicz.

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.