Korn family papers
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
David Korn donated the Korn family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Scope and Content
The Korn family papers includes five photographic postcards of a concentration camp, likely Buchenwald concentration camp following its liberation. The collection also includes two letters written by an American G.I. named "Ward," written to his mother, June and August 1945. One of the letters describes a visit to Buchenwald concentration camp.
System of Arrangement
The Korn family papers is arranged in a single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- United States. Army.
- Soldiers--United States.
- Germany.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Correspondence.
- Photographs.
- Document
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