Arnold Joseph collection

Arnold Joseph collection 

Arnold Joseph was born in 1927 in Saarbrucken, Germany, to Ferdinand and Elsa Joseph. He immigrated to the United States in 1938 with his mother, stepfather Sydney Hanau, and brother Gary (Gert) and lived in the Bronx. He was drafted into the United States Army in the summer of 1945, assigned as technical sergeant to security at the International Military Tribunal, and served in Nuremberg from January to October 1946. His task was censoring letters exchanged between the defendants and their family members and letters to the defendants from the general public. The head of his unit was Colonel Andrews, and his direct supervisor was Lieutenant Tex Wheelis. 

Arnold Joseph collection