Gilden Meyer papers relating to Wöbbelin

Identifier

irn503808

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1994.A.0226
RG-04.044

Dates

1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Languages

English

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503808

Extent and Medium

folder

1 sound cassette,

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The donor file for Meyer Gilden provides no provenance information about the collection. Steps should be taken in the future to contact Mr. Gilden about this matter.

Scope and Content

Contain matierals relating to the Wöbbelin concentration camp. They include a speech delivered at the burial service for victims of Wöbbelin on 08 May 1945; copies of the speech by Harry C. Cain, US Army Directory of Military Government (G-5), from the aforesaid booklet; an audiotape version of the speech read by Meyer Gilden; and a color copy of a painting of the memorial at Wöbbelin with Cain's speech inscribed. *See the Meyer Gilden donor file for more detailed information about the painting.

Corporate Bodies

Wöbbelin (Concentration camp)

Subjects

Burial.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
Concentration camps in art--Germany.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art--Germany.

Genre

Document

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