William Sawchuk letter
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Overview
- Description
- Letter written by William Sawchuk Sr., a soldier in the United States Army, from Germany to his family, dated May 5, 1945. In the letter, Sawchuk he describes the atrocities he witnessed as his battalion moved through Germany and encountered concentration camps and survivors whom he describes as "human skeletons" walking the roads and the dead lying besides them. He also describes the stories survivors recounted of families killed at the hands of the Nazis in concentration camps and their own starving and suffering.
- Date
-
creation:
1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of William Sawchuk, Jr.
- Collection Creator
- William A. Sawchuk Sr.
Physical Details
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Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Germany.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by William Sawchuk Jr, son of William Sawchuk Sr.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:36:07
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn35083
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