Overview
- Description
- Consists of one letter, four pages, written by Lt. Margaret House, a member of the 91st Evacuation Hospital, on April 18, 1945, after witnessing the atrocities at Gardelegen. She compares the idyllic German countryside with the horrors of the things she had witnessed.
- Date
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1945
Physical Details
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945.
- Personal Name
- House, Margaret.
- Corporate Name
- United States. Army. Evacuation Hospital, 91st
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Deborah Ann Taylor donated her aunt's letter to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on July 19, 2007
- Record last modified:
- 2024-11-07 10:42:45
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524240
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