Irving P. Eisner correspondence
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Stewart Eisner
Stewart Eisner donated his father's letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 1, 2009.
Scope and Content
Consists of one letter, four pages, written on May 15, 1945, by Irving Phillip Eisner, a Jewish soldier in the American Army. In the letter, Mr. Eisner described what he witnessed touring the Buchenwald concentration camp and asked his father to pass along a message from a survivor to a family member living in the United States.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Concentration camps--Germany-Buchenwald.
Genre
- Document
- Letter.