Louis Ranciato collection
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Overview
- Description
- The Louis Ranciato collection includes a journal, photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to Staff Sergeant Louis Ranciato’s experience in the United States Army and as a liberator of the Dachau concentration camp. The journal includes entries and poems recalling his experiences, starting in 1941, and provides a timeline and his comments on the development of the war and returning home. The entries dated May 2-7, 1945 describe his observations of Dachau. The collection also includes photographs of a man believed to be Louis during his time in the military and of Dachau after liberation as well as newspaper clippings about the liberation of Dachau.
- Date
-
creation:
circa 1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rosalie Heffernan and Anthony Ranciato
- Collection Creator
- Louis Ranciato
- Biography
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Louis Ranciato served in the United States Army during World War II. Louis began his military career with the 118th Medical Regiment, 43rd Division in 1941. In 1942 he was transferred to the 38th Division. He was deployed to Europe with the 101st Airborne Division in 1943 and participated in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Diaries. Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
1 oversize box
- System of Arrangement
- The Louis Ranciato collection is arranged as a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Soldiers--United States--Diaries. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Personal Name
- Ranciato, Louis.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Louis Ranciato collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Rosalie Heffernan in 2016.
- Funding Note
- The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded Save Their Stories campaign.
- Special Collection
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Save Their Stories
- Record last modified:
- 2024-04-11 13:19:07
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn539510
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Also in Louis Ranciato collection
The collection consists of a portrait painting by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield), clippings, a journal, and photographs relating to the experiences of Louis Ranciato, Staff Sergeant in the United States Army and a liberator of Dachau concentration camp in Germany during World War II.
Date: 1945
Portrait of a US soldier by Gyorgy Byfield, liberated concentration camp inmate
Object
Framed portrait painting of Staff Sergeant Louis Ranciato, United States Army, a liberator of Dachau concentration camp. It was painted by George Byfield [Gyorgy Beifeld] in the camp after its liberation by the 7th Army on April 19, 1945. Byfield, a camp inmate, had been deported from Budapest, Hungary, following the German occupation in March 1944.
