Fred Stern collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Fred Stern
Biographical History
Fred Stern served as a Private in the 327th Engineer Combat Battalion, 102nd Infantry Division.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ronnie Field
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Ronnie Field donated the Fred Stern collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017. Ronnie Field is the niece of Fred Stern and daughter of Mollie Bruh Stern.
Scope and Content
The Fred Stern collection consists of one letter (V-mail) and one photograph pertaining Pvt. Fred Stern's service with the 327th Engineer Combat Battalion, 102nd Infantry Division. The letter was sent to his sister Mollie Bruh (née Stern) in May 1945. The letter relates the German atrocities witnessed by Stern, specifically the Gardelegen Massacre and its aftermath. The photograph depicts the corpses of Dachau concentration camp victims.
System of Arrangement
The Fred Stern collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Bruh, Mollie.
- Stern, Fred.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Liberation--Germany.
- Soldiers--United States.
- Gardelegen massacre, 1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- Germany.
- Holocaust victims.
- United States. Army.
Genre
- V-mail.
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Photograph.
- Personal narratives.