United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dr. Bruno Kriss was born in Vienna, Austria, on Jan. 4, 1900, and graduated from medical school in 1924. He began a private practice as a gynecologist until another doctor, affliated with the Nazis, arranged for Dr. Kriss' arrest and took over the practice. Dr. Kriss was imprisoned in various Viennese jails for four months and was eventually sent to Buchenwald, where he remained for five months working in the hospital. Through the efforts of his wife, he was released in 1939 and immediately emigrated to the United States where he lived until his death in 1965
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Consists of two letters written by Dr. Bruno Kriss, M.D., regarding the time he spent in the Buchenwald concentration camp from 1938 to 1939. The letters include commentary on the effect of Kristallnacht on the prisoners in Buchenwald.
Dr. Bruno Kriss correspondence