Overview
- Description
- Letter with envelope and photo sent from Captain Frank Cohen to Betty Luby, his future wife, while he served in the medical corps of the U.S. Army, detailing his experience liberating the Dachau concentration camp. The letter features a hand-drawn, aerial map of the camp's exterior.
- Date
-
creation:
1945 May
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, gift of Nancy Abrams and Shelley Morhaim
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence
- Extent
-
1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- Collection is unarranged.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum has made reasonable efforts but is not able to determine the copyright status of some or all of the material(s) in this collection, or identify and/or locate the potential copyright owner(s). The Museum therefore places no restrictions on use of this material, but it cannot provide any information to the user about the status of the copyright(s). The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Corporate Name
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2023 by Nancy Abrams and Shelley Morhaim, daughters of Frank and Betty Cohen.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-03-08 14:09:18
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn722785
Download & Licensing
- Copyright Undetermined
- Terms of Use
- This record is not digitized and cannot be downloaded online.
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