Margaret House letter

Identifier
irn524240
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.388.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524240

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Deborah Ann Taylor donated her aunt's letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on July 19, 2007

Scope and Content

Consists of one letter, four pages, written by Lt. Margaret House, a member of the 91st Evacuation Hospital, on April 18, 1945, after witnessing the atrocities at Gardelegen. She compares the idyllic German countryside with the horrors of the things she had witnessed.

People

  • House, Margaret.

Corporate Bodies

  • United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 91st

Subjects

  • Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945.

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.