Testimony regarding Kristallnacht and Dachau
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Wendy Wallace donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Nov. 8, 2007
Scope and Content
Consists of one typed testimony, 10 pages, unsigned, written most likely in late 1938 or 1939, by an anonymous author, regarding the experiences of the author after being arrested on Kristallnacht and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. The author describes the Gestapo search of his apartment, his arrest, and gives extensive detail about life in Dachau at this time. Wendy Wallace [donor] found this testimony in the home of Miss Mundell Doolittle.
Subjects
- Kristallnacht, 1938--Personal naratives.
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Document
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