Dr. Naim N. Khuri autograph album
Extent and Medium
oversize box
1
Creator(s)
- Naim N. Khuri
Biographical History
Dr. Naim N. Khuri was born on December 15, 1907, in Brummānā, Lebanon. He attended medical school at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, and immigrated to the United States where he interned at Bellevue, N.Y. and then moved to Binghampton, N.Y. He was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army and served in Europe during World War II. He spent three years administering the hospital in Dachau, Germany, after the war and then returned to Binghampton where he set up a private practice. Dr. Khuri died on Mar. 23, 1985.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Patricia Chiarenza
The album was given to Dr. Naim N. Khuri, Patricia Chiarenza's father, by the staff of the Post Hospital in Dachau, Germany. Patricia Chiarenza donated it to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004.
Scope and Content
Contains an autograph album bound in a wooden cover that was handmade in Dachau, Germany, after World War II, and consists of eight handwritten pages. It was signed by the staff of the Post Hospital in Dachau and given to Dr. Naim N. Khuri (donor's father), a lieutenant in the U.S. Army who served in Europe during World War II and spent three years after the war administering a hospital in Dachau.
Subjects
- Dachau (Germany)
Genre
- Autograph albums.
- Document