Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Date
-
inclusive:
1945-1946
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Hasten Hebrew Academy by Peter Weisz
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Postcards. Letter.
- Extent
-
1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The collection is arranged as a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Zambrów (Poland)
- Corporate Name
- United States. Army
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Sharon Merin of the Hasten Hebrew Academy in 1998.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 18:04:25
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn543389
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- Terms of Use
- This record is not digitized and cannot be downloaded online.
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