Bert Yost letter
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Linda Keeney
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Linda Keeney donated the Bert Yost letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017. Linda Keeney is the daughter of Dorothy Mosely.
Scope and Content
The Bert Yost letter was sent by Bert Yost, an American soldier, to Lt. Dorothy Mosely, a nurse serving in United States military hospitals in Britain and France during World War II. The letter , dated May 10, 1945, describes the military hospital where Yost was stationed in occupied Germany. He also described the former prisoners-of-war and concentration camp inmates who had been admitted as patients to his hospital, the refugees he had seen in the area, and stories he had heard about atrocities committed in the concentration camps include a probably reference to Ilse Koch.
System of Arrangement
The Bert Yost letter is arranged in a single series.
People
- Koch, Ilse, 1906-1967.
- Yost, Bert.
- Mosely, Dorothy.
Subjects
- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone).
- Holocaust survivors.
- Soldiers--United States.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Holocaust victims.
- Refugees.
- United States. Army.
Genre
- Letters.
- Document
- Correspondence.