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"My Impressions of Belsen Concentration Camp"

Document | Accession Number: 2004.155

Consists of document, 7 pages, entitled "My Impressions of Belsen Concentration Camp," by Robert M. Rutan. Mr. Rutan visited the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on May 2, 1945 while traveling toward the Baltic Sea with the 7th Armored Division. He describes the experience of a visitor to the camp and what he witnessed there.

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Dennis Thayer donated this document to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Apr. 13, 2004. His aunt, Mercedes Morton gave him the letter, which she had received from a soldier (possibly Mr. Rutan) after World War II, while she was employed at the Rossford (Ohio) Army Ordinance.
 
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