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Jules Barrash letter

Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0508

The Jules Barrash letter consists of a typed testimony, written as a letter to family, by Jules Barrash, a Jewish-American liberator of the Buchenwald concentration camp, April 16, 1945. In the testimony, he describes the camp physically, his impressions taking a tour from a newly liberated French prisoner, and the hospital before bringing the other soldiers in his outfit in for a tour. He wrote that what he saw at Buchenwald showed him the reason they were fighting the war.

Date
creation:  1945 April 16
Language
English
Genre/Form
Memoirs.
Correspondence.
Personal narratives.
Extent
1 folder

About This Document

System of Arrangement
The Jules Barrash letter is arranged as a single series.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Jules M. Barrash donated his letter to the to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994.
Funding Note
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
Record last modified: 2020-04-13 12:30:51
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