us-005578-irn35083
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
has beginning date: 1945-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: eng
has or had subject: 843
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn35083
record resource extent: folder 1
results or resulted from: 1
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.
title: William Sawchuk letter