"Robert's World"
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ann Tartaul
Ann Tartaul donated her husband's memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in January 2011.
Scope and Content
Consists of one memoir, 20 pages, entitled "Robert's World", by Robert Tartaul, written in 1996 and describing his life from 1915-1967. In the memoir, he describes growing up near San Francisco and his experiences as a training officer in the United States Army from 1940-1944. In January 1945, he was shipped to France and was assigned to the 564th Tactical Artillery Battalion, with whom he participated in the liberation of concentration camp survivors on a death march near Ried, Germany.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
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