Overview
- Description
- Contains an honorable discharge document issued to Robert W. Tighe from the United States Army; correspondence from Tighe to his parents in Roxbury, MA, while he was stationed in Europe during WWII; correspondence from the University of Pittsburgh Press (1986) regarding his oral history; letters from school students thanking Mr. Tighe for a presentation at their class in 1995; news clippings; an illustrated German magazine from 1941, likely picked up by Tighe after war; and laminated pages from April 22, 1945 issues of "Yank" magazine, with cover, containing an article about General Creighton Abrams (pp. 27-29), and letter to the editor by Cpl. Howard Katzander, describing his experiences at having visited Buchenwald camp post-liberation.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Letters. Newspaper articles.
- Extent
-
2 folders
1 oversize folder
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
- Personal Name
- Tighe, Dorren J.
- 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 in 1995 by Robert W. Tighe.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 18:19:04
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501003
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