us-005578-irn503745
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archival history: Sarah Eiseman
biographical history: Louis Eiseman (d. 1986) was a former Captain in the U.S. Army Air Forces, a member of the Office of Strategic Services in World War II, and postwar provost marshal at Dachau. He was married to Sarah Eiseman,
has beginning date: 1945-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
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identifier: irn503745
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scope and content: Consists of a copy of a letter written by Louis Eiseman to his younger sister in May 1945, relating Eiseman's general impressions of the sub-human conditions in the Nazi camps near the end of World War II. The letter describes children in the camps; starvation of prisoners; gassing and cremation of camp prisoners; the liquidation of Lidice, Czechoslovakia; and the torture and killing of American troops by the Germans.
title: Louis Eiseman letter describing his personal impressions of Nazi concentration camps