Peter Piper letter

Identifier
irn502050
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.A.0180
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502050

Extent and Medium

folder

1

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.

Pat Piper donated the Peter Piper letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in September 1998. Pat Piper is the son of Peter Piper.

Scope and Content

The Peter Piper letter contains a handwritten letter, dated April 8, 1945, written by Peter Piper, a member of the Fourth Armored Division of the United States Army, and sent to Mary Alice Boyd in Madison, Wisconsin. In the letter, Piper describes capturing a liquor storehouse and distributing the contents to his friends, and the concentration camp he toured [likely Ohrdruf] and commented on the suicide of the mayor of the nearby village.

System of Arrangement

The Peter Piper letter is arranged in a single series.

People

  • Piper, Peter.
  • Boyd, Mary Alice.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Soldiers--United States.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Germany.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.