"My Impressions of Belsen Concentration Camp"
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Dennis Thayer donated this document to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Apr. 13, 2004. His aunt, Mercedes Morton gave him the letter, which she had received from a soldier (possibly Mr. Rutan) after World War II, while she was employed at the Rossford (Ohio) Army Ordinance.
Scope and Content
Consists of document, seven pages, entitled "My Impressions of Belsen Concentration Camp," by Robert M. Rutan. Mr. Rutan visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on May 2, 1945, shortly after liberation of the camp, while traveling toward the Baltic Sea with the 7th Armored Division. He describes the experience of a visitor to the camp and what he witnessed there.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.