United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The Peter Piper letter is arranged in a single series.
The Peter Piper letter contains a handwritten letter, dated April 8, 1945, written by Peter Piper, a member of the Fourth Armored Division of the United States Army, and sent to Mary Alice Boyd in Madison, Wisconsin. In the letter, Piper describes capturing a liquor storehouse and distributing the contents to his friends, and the concentration camp he toured [likely Ohrdruf] and commented on the suicide of the mayor of the nearby village.
Peter Piper letter