Robert Julian Weill letter

Identifier
irn514701
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.196
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514701

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.

Charles Weill donated the Robert Julian Weill letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in 2004. Charles Weill is the son of Robert Julian Weill.

Scope and Content

The Robert Julian Weill letter consists of one letter, dated May 17, 1945, from Major Robert Julian Weill to his wife, Lou Ellen Weill. Major Weill served with the 42nd Rainbow Division and participated in the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. In the letter, Major Weill reports that he has assumed control of a German prisoner of war camp near Kufstein, Austria, and remarks upon the irony that he, a Jewish man, is in charge of the Germans.

System of Arrangement

The Robert Julian Weill letter is arranged in a single series.

People

  • Weill, Lou Ellen.
  • Weill, Robert Julian.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Soldiers--United States.
  • Germany.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • United States. Army.
  • Austria.
  • Kufstein (Austria)

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.