In through the gate out through the chimney

Identifier

irn504157

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1994.A.0186
RG-09.031

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn504157

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

In Jun. 1994, Doug Beabout, a great-nephew of Abner Zehm, gave the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives a photocopy of the text.

Scope and Content

An eyewitness account by Abner Zehm and William Birch of the U.S. Army Medical Corps describing post-liberation Buchenwald. Contains information about medical experiments on prisoners; starvation; and crematoria.

Corporate Bodies

Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Subjects

Starvation.
Crematoriums.
Soldiers' writings.
Human experimentation in medicine.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Holocaust survivors.

Genre

Personal narratives.
Document

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