71st Infantry Division documents relating to the liberation of Gunskirchen

Identifier
irn503811
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.A.0228
  • RG-09.024
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

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.

The documents were in the possessions of Ralph Falkenstein. His daughter, Hilde Pride, gave them to the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati in January 1994. Abe Peck of the American Jewish Archives removed the Holocaust-related documents from the collection and donated them on to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in the same month.

Scope and Content

Contains an unsigned report, 06 May 1945, concerning the conditions in Gunskirchen, a subcamp of Mauthausen concentration camp, at the time of liberation and an undated report by Major Cameron Coffman describing the conditions in the camp and the activities of the 71st Infantry Division in the liberation of the camp.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in a single series.

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