Overview
- Description
- Dachau by Elmer Joachim is a five page memoir about the reactions of a United States soldier, Elmer Joachim, to his arrival in the Dachau concentration camp on May 3, 1945.
- Date
-
creation:
circa 1945
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives.
- Extent
-
1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The memoir is arranged in a single seriers.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation. Holocaust victims. Holocaust survivors. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- Geographic Name
- Germany. Dachau (Germany)
- Personal Name
- Joachim, Elmer.
- Corporate Name
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- David Sheldon donated Dachau by Elmer Joachim to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 1998. David Sheldon purchased the memoir at a flea market.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 13:56:17
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501925
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