Solomon Surowitz collection

Identifier
irn521552
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.6
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521552

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Donald M. Nussbaum was a law partner of Solomon Surowitz, and found these papers after Mr. Surowitz's death. Solomon Surowitz was a prosecutor at the Buchenwald war crimes trial. Donald Nussbaum donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jan. 5, 2004.

Scope and Content

Consists of one brown placard dated 11 April 1947, Dachau, presented to Mr. Solomon Surowitz, a prosecutor at the Buchenwald trial from New York, NY; states that the group will always remember the dead of Buchenwald. Collection also contains one bound copy of "An information booklet on the Buchenwald concentration camp case: the United States of America v. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al. : to be heard at Camp Dachau, Germany, 11 April 1947" (published in Dachau, Germany; 47 pages with signatures of participants in the back).

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Buchenwald Trial, Dachau, Germany, 1946.
  • War crimes trials--Germany.

Genre

  • Document
  • Publications.
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