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Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum collection

Collection

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.
Date: approximately 1933-approximately 1946

Geography: issue: Germany
Date: issue: 1933
Geography: issue: Germany
Date: commemoration: 1935 May 01
Geography: issue: Germany
Date: commemoration: 1934 June 16-1934 June 17
Geography: found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Date: found: 1945 April 11
Geography: found: Germany
Date: found: 1945
Geography: found: Germany
Date: found: 1945
Geography: found: Germany
Date: found: 1945
: Record last modified: 2019-12-05 22:39:56
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