Otmar Pirnat papers
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Mia Pirnat donated her father's papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of two letters written by Otmar Pirnat, a political prisoner at the Mauthausen concentration camp, to his parents on Mauthausen camp stationery. Mr. Pirnat, originally of Maribor, Slovenia, was wrongfully arrested as a partisan, sent to prison in Vienna, then to Mauthausen, were he was imprisoned for more than two years.
People
- Pirnat, Otmar.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Concentration camp inmates' writings--Austria--Mauthausen.
Genre
- Letters.
- Document