Certificate of discharge
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The certificate was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Ann Gelles.
Scope and Content
The certificate ("Entlassungschein") issued for Kurt Gelles [donor's husband] from Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, dated December 23, 1938, stating that he was interned beginning June 1, 1938, and he was born on July 24, 1907, in Vienna, Austria, where he was arrested and released.
People
- Gelles, Kurt.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
Genre
- Certificates.
- Document