The original letter was written by Louis Eiseman in May 1945 and was addressed to his youngest sister. The sister passed the letter on to Sarah Eiseman, the donor, who made several photocopies of the letter and sent them to several family members. Mrs. Eiseman also sent a photocopy of the letter to Suzy Goldstein of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections and Acquisitions Department in Jan. 1993. That department retained that copy of the letter for its files, while forwarding another photocopy to the United States Holocaust Research Institute Archives in Jan. 1993.