us-005578-irn35083
identifier: irn35083
type: RecordSet
results or resulted from: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn35083/acquisitions/1
has record set type: Item
has or had subject: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/vocabularies/ehri-terms/843
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1945-12-31
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1945-01-01
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had identifier: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/units/us-005578-irn35083/alternateIDs/1
has or had holder: us-005578
scope and content: 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.
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
title: William Sawchuk letter
record resource extent: folder 1