Hasso Hinke journal

Identifier
irn713078
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2019.575.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

oversize box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection

Acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019.

Scope and Content

Journal illustrated and written by German POW Hasso Hinke who was held in Rheinwiesenlager in 1945-46 (part of a group of 19 camps built in Allied-occupied part of Germany by the US Army to hold captured German soldiers (held between 1-2 million Wehrmacht personnel) under poor conditions and later in a PG Lager in Grenoble, France. The journal Includes letters and postcards he sent and received. (It looks like a family member or the author later added notes in pen and an article). Hasso Hinke worked as a professional cartoonist and caricaturist in Berlin after the war. Photographs, clippings, drawings, pasted on to some of the pages, with loose correspondence, postcards, programs, and drawings tucked in between some of the pages.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

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.