Joseph G. Fogg letter and obituary
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Joseph G. Fogg
Biographical History
Joseph G. Fogg (Cleveland, Oh., 1920 - Moreland Hills, 1992) was as a volunteer ambulance driver for an American Field Service unit attached to the 8th British Army, and served from 1942 to 1945. He witnessed Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly after liberation
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Daniel T. Fogg donated the materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 1994.
Scope and Content
Contains a copy of a April 30, 1945 letter by Joseph G. Fogg to his parents describing what he saw at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp the week after liberation including health conditions of and care given to the camp's surviving inmates, the camp's sanitary conditions, and the fate of some of the camp's SS guards. Also contains a photocopy of an obituary for Joseph G. Fogg, from the April 4, 1992, issue of "The Plain Dealer." The obituary provides additional information about Fogg's military experiences, interests, and family life.
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
- Great Britain. Army
Subjects
- Typhus fever.
- Holocaust survivors--Health and hygiene.
- Medical care.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--Men authors.
- Sanitation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Starvation.
Genre
- Document
- Letter.