Richard J. Lembach letter from Dachau
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Edwin Poulin
Gift of Edwin Poulin, 2013.
Scope and Content
Letter and envelope sent by PFC Richard J. Lembach who served in the Medical Corp, 1st Battalion, 47th Infantry, United States Army, and who was posted at Dachau after the liberation of that camp in 1945. In the letter, dated August 9, 1945, and addressed to Anne Lembach in Milwaukee, Lembach described what he saw in Dachau and what he heard had happened to the prisoners there.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mr. Edwin Poulin
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Infantry, 47th
Subjects
- Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.
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