1981 International Liberators Conference collection Miscellaneous POW camps
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Scope and Content
Contains letters written by John H. Hill and Buruil Hayes in 1981 relating to their experiences in liberating prisoners-of-war camps and concentration camps at the end of World War II. Hill describes the liberation of several stalags in Germany and the types of prisoners liberated from the camps. He also mentions encountering a camp for political prisoners while en route to Kinzenbach, Germany, as well as the Hadamar Institute where inmates were victims of euthanasia. The letter by Buruil Hayes describes his imprisonment in two separate stalags in Poland and his liberation by the Red Army.
People
- Hill, John H.
- Hayes, Buruil.
Corporate Bodies
- Stalag XI A
- Stalag III C
- Stalag IV B
- Stalag XI B
- Stalag Luft VII
- Oflag IVC (Concentration camp)
- Soviet Union. Raboche-Krestʹi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ Krasnai︠a︡ Armii︠a︡
- United States. Army. Armored Division, 7th
- Landesheilanstalt Hadamar
- United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 99th
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Hamburg (Germany)
- Prisoners of war.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- Jews--Germany.
- Women.
- Mentally ill.
- Health facilities.
- Crematoriums.
- Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
- Mülberg (Germany)
- Hadamar (Germany)
- Moosburg (Germany)
- Kinzenbach (Germany)
- Giessen (Hesse, Germany)
- Jews--Poland.
- Political prisoners.
Genre
- Document
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