Werner Krumme collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Bill Lewis
Irving Lewis (donor's father) was a member of the Counter Intelligence Corps at the end of the second World War in Germany and likely received the copy in his duties. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Bill Lewis.
Scope and Content
Cntains a copy of a three page letter, dated August 1945, written by Werner Krumme, a Polish man who was arrested and interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943. Krumme's wife, Ruth, perished in the camp, and Werner worked in a clerical position in the camp until July 1944.
Corporate Bodies
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.
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