Robert Julian Weill letter
Extent and Medium
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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.
Charles Weill donated the Robert Julian Weill letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in 2004. Charles Weill is the son of Robert Julian Weill.
Scope and Content
The Robert Julian Weill letter consists of one letter, dated May 17, 1945, from Major Robert Julian Weill to his wife, Lou Ellen Weill. Major Weill served with the 42nd Rainbow Division and participated in the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. In the letter, Major Weill reports that he has assumed control of a German prisoner of war camp near Kufstein, Austria, and remarks upon the irony that he, a Jewish man, is in charge of the Germans.
System of Arrangement
The Robert Julian Weill letter is arranged in a single series.
People
- Weill, Robert Julian.
- Weill, Lou Ellen.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Kufstein (Austria)
- United States. Army.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Austria.
- Germany.
- Soldiers--United States.
Genre
- Letter.
- Document