Bert Yost letter

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Bert Yost letter 

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The Bert Yost letter was sent by Bert Yost, an American soldier, to Lt. Dorothy Mosely, a nurse serving in United States military hospitals in Britain and France during World War II. The letter , dated May 10, 1945, describes the military hospital where Yost was stationed in occupied Germany. He also described the former prisoners-of-war and concentration camp inmates who had been admitted as patients to his hospital, the refugees he had seen in the area, and stories he had heard about atrocities committed in the concentration camps include a probably reference to Ilse Koch. 

The Bert Yost letter is arranged in a single series.