Samuel Sack letter
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Samuel Sack
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.
Mrs. Sydney Bortner donated this letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Nov. 3, 2006. Mr. Sack was a Jewish secretary who had worked for Mrs. Bortner's father, Norman R. Dutton, before joining the United States Army.
Scope and Content
The Samuel Sack letter consists of one typewritten letter, sent from Samuel Sack, a member of the XV Corps of the American Army, Sydney Dutton (later Sydney Bortner). The letter was written by Sack in Salzburg, Austria on May 26, 1945 and describes his wartime experiences in the spring of 1945. The letter describes battles in which his battalion participated and Sack’s experiences as a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp as part of the Seventh Army. The letter was written on the stationery of the regional leader of the Nazi Party of Salzburg (der Gauleiter und Reichsstatthalter in Salzburg), which features an embossed Nazi emblem.
System of Arrangement
The Samuel Sack letter is arranged in a single series.
People
- Sack, Samuel.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Salzburg (Austria)
- Germany.
- Austria.
- United States. Army.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
- Soldiers--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.
- Correspondence.
- Letters.