Margaret House letter

Identifier
irn524240
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.388.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Deborah Ann Taylor donated her aunt's letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on July 19, 2007

Scope and Content

Consists of one letter, four pages, written by Lt. Margaret House, a member of the 91st Evacuation Hospital, on April 18, 1945, after witnessing the atrocities at Gardelegen. She compares the idyllic German countryside with the horrors of the things she had witnessed.

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