Hasten Hebrew Academy collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Hasten Hebrew Academy by Peter Weisz
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Sharon Merin of the Hasten Hebrew Academy in 1998.
Scope and Content
Consists of one adhesive stamp with logo from office of Reichskanzlei; three postcards from Zambrów, Poland (dated 1946), written in Yiddish and addressed to George Sampson of Indianapolis, Indiana; and a letter written by Sy Schenkman, a U.S. soldier writing home to his wife in Indianapolis, describing the scene at site of a concentration camp in Nammering (near Bayreuth), Germany, including German civilians being forced to bury bodies of camp victims, and former SS guard being beat up by American troops.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged as a single series.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army
Subjects
- Zambrów (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Postcards.
- Letter.
- Document