Hans Walter collection

Identifier
irn519662
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.A.0223
Dates
1 Jan 1964 - 31 Dec 1997
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Hans Walter donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on April 8, 1998.

Scope and Content

Consists of newspaper articles about Hans Walter's youth in Berlin, Germany, his experiences in Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Ebensee, photocopies of his friend Peter Edel's drawings, and a photocopy of a forged twenty-pound note created as part of Operation Bernhard, a forgery effort conducted in Sachsenhausen.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged as a single series.

Subjects

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.