Otmar Pirnat papers

Identifier
irn516490
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1996.8
Dates
1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1944
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

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.

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