Overview
- Description
- Contains a photocopy of the typewritten recollections of Irwin B. Zeisel, a United States Army Staff Sergeant in the 304th Medical Detachment, 76th Infantry Division, during World War II. He describes conditions he witnessed in Buchenwald and other unnamed concentration camps and unnamed displaced persons camps in Germany. Handwritten editorial corrections are included.
- Date
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creation:
1983
- Collection Creator
- Irwin B. Zeisel
- Biography
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Irwin B. Zeisel, a Staff Sergeant in the 304th Medical Detachment, 76th Infantry Division, United States Army, in the European Theater during World War II, was a witness to conditions in several concentration and displaced persons camps in Germany.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 item.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
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Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Jan Zeisel, Irwin B. Zeisel's widow, sent the memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Oct. 1996.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 17:21:44
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn506482
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