Hasten Hebrew Academy collection

Identifier
irn543389
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.19
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Yiddish
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn543389

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Hasten Hebrew Academy by Peter Weisz

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Sharon Merin of the Hasten Hebrew Academy in 1998.

Scope and Content

Consists of one adhesive stamp with logo from office of Reichskanzlei; three postcards from Zambrów, Poland (dated 1946), written in Yiddish and addressed to George Sampson of Indianapolis, Indiana; and a letter written by Sy Schenkman, a U.S. soldier writing home to his wife in Indianapolis, describing the scene at site of a concentration camp in Nammering (near Bayreuth), Germany, including German civilians being forced to bury bodies of camp victims, and former SS guard being beat up by American troops.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged as a single series.

Corporate Bodies

  • United States. Army

Subjects

  • Zambrów (Poland)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

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.