Stanley Sarnack letter
Extent and Medium
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1
Creator(s)
- Stanley Sarnack
Biographical History
Stanley Sarnack was a member of the 102nd Infantry Division of the Ninth Army, and witnessed the aftermath of the Gardelegen atrocities.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lt. Commander Andrew J. DeKever
Lt. Commander Andrew DeKever donated the Stanley Sarnack letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.
Scope and Content
The Stanley Sarnack letter consists of one handwritten letter from Stanley Sarnack, to Stella Wells of Utica, New York, dated May 2nd, 1945, and written from "somewhere in Germany." In the letter, Sarnack, a member of the 102th Infantry Division of the Ninth Army, mentions German atrocities he had witnessed, including a building where bodies were burned alive [likely the Gardelegen atrocities].
System of Arrangement
The Stanley Sarnack letter is arranged in a single series.
People
- Sarnack, Stanley.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 102nd
Subjects
- Soldiers--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany--Gardelegen (Germany : Landkreis)
- Germany.
- Gardelegen massacre, 1945.
- United States. Army.
Genre
- Letter.
- Document
- Correspondence.