Letter written by William Sawchuk Sr., a soldier in the United States Army, from Germany to his family, dated May 5, 1945. In the letter, Sawchuk he describes the atrocities he witnessed as his battalion moved through Germany and encountered concentration camps and survivors whom he describes as"human skeleton" walking the roads and the dead lying besides them. He also describes the stories survivors recounted of families killed at the hands of the Nazis in concentration camps and their own starving and suffering.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
William Sawchuk letter
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