Dr. Bruno Kriss correspondence
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Bruno Kriss
Biographical History
Dr. Bruno Kriss was born in Vienna, Austria, on Jan. 4, 1900, and graduated from medical school in 1924. He began a private practice as a gynecologist until another doctor, affliated with the Nazis, arranged for Dr. Kriss' arrest and took over the practice. Dr. Kriss was imprisoned in various Viennese jails for four months and was eventually sent to Buchenwald, where he remained for five months working in the hospital. Through the efforts of his wife, he was released in 1939 and immediately emigrated to the United States where he lived until his death in 1965
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Robert Beecher
Robert Beecher donated his uncle's letters to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Dec. 12, 2003.
Scope and Content
Consists of two letters written by Dr. Bruno Kriss, M.D., regarding the time he spent in the Buchenwald concentration camp from 1938 to 1939. The letters include commentary on the effect of Kristallnacht on the prisoners in Buchenwald.
People
- Kriss, Bruno.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Jews--Austria--Vienna.
- Vienna, Austria.
Genre
- Letters.
- Document