Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection consists of artifacts, books, booklets, clippings, documents, and propaganda materials relating to the experiences of Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum, before, during, and after World War II (1939-1945), during which Edward, a 1st Lieutenant in the OSS and the US Army, was the first American officer to enter Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation, a participant in the liberation of Ohrdruf, and author of the Buchenwald Report. His father, Joseph Tenenbaum, was one of the organizers of the early boycott against Nazi Germany.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Jeannette Tenenbaum, wife of Edward Tenenbaum and daughter-in-law of Joseph Tenenbaum.