Hugh Baumgardner letter
Extent and Medium
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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.
Roland Theiler donated the Hugh Baumgardner letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004.
Scope and Content
The Hugh Baumgardner letter is a six-page typed letter was written by Hugh Baumgardner [donor's sister's father-in-law] describing his visit to the Dachau concentration camp following its liberation in the spring 1945.
System of Arrangement
The Hugh Baumgardner letter is arranged in a single series.
People
- Baumgardner, Hugh.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Munich (Germany)
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Dachau.
- Soldiers--United States.
- United States. Army.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Correspondence.
- Letters.