Ernest Waller collection
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Teresa Marmo
Patrick and Teresa Marmo donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Nov. 2011.
Scope and Content
Consists of one document, three pages, in English, describing the liberation at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from the collection of Ernest L. Waller, who was with the British Army's RASC, attached to the 163rd forward ambulance group. The report, entitled "Notes on Belsen Camp," describes the terrible conditions after the liberation of the camp in April 1945, including a description of the thousands of prisoners who died due to typhus and other diseases and of the events leading to the liberation of the camp. Also includes a document listing the military units and voluntary organizations stationed at Bergen-Belsen as of May 18, 1945.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Mr. Patrick Marmo
People
- Waller, Ernest.
Corporate Bodies
- Great Britain. Army
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Bergen-Belsen.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.
- Photograph.