Edgar Rauner papers
Extent and Medium
folders
5
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Wolfgang Rauner
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Wolfgang Rauner.
Scope and Content
Contains correspondence from Edgar Rauner (donor's brother) to his parents Neddy and Aron in New York. Edgar, a member of the United States 7th Army was a refugee of Nazi Germany, arrived in the United States before WWII and was drafted into the US Army where he was stationed at Camp Ritchie in Maryland before being sent overseas to Europe during the war. Also included in the collection are photographs taken in Europe, depicting the American Army and many captured German propaganda images.
Corporate Bodies
- Camp Albert C. Ritchie (Md.)
Subjects
- Fort Ritchie (Md.)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Letters.
- Document
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