World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners of War
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
German Prisoner of War Letters
Two letters, 1944 and 1945, written by German prisoners of war from camps in Virginia (Camp Pickett and Camp Hampton Roads) to their families in Germany. Both letters are written on official prisoner of war form stationary and have been stamped by a U.S. censor. The letters are written in Suetterlin script.
Herman Recht Papers
Hilda Haworth Diary
Italian Prisoner of War letters
Three Prisoner of War letters from World War II written in Italian. Two letters originated in Algeria (Orano) Camp #134. The third has an address listed as the Prisoner of War Information Bureau Provost Marshall's Office, POW camp M126, Washington, D.C. Letters are stamped or have markings indicating Prisoner of War Postage and also show stamps that the letters passed censoring protocol.
Kenneth H. Singer Papers
Kenneth J. Kestenholtz Letters
Anna Koch to Erich Koch Letter
Letter, 3 December 1946, from Anna Koch, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, to her son Erich Koch, a prisoner of war (ISN31G, 130194 MI). Anna believed Erich to be kept in Camp Patrick Henry in Newport News. At the time of the letter she had not heard from her son since August 1944.
She mentions that Erich was promoted to train inspector during his absence, is relieved that he was never a member of a political party and gives him news on relatives.
Murray Nadel Papers
Albert W. Raymond Papers, 1939-1941
Contains both official and personal correspondence of the family of Albert W. Raymond, an American volunteer ambulance driver who was taken prisoner of war by the Germans in France on May 15, 1940. He was held at the German prison camp for officers at Hoyerswerda, near Dresden. Among the correspondents are his wife, Helen, his daughter and son-in-law, Fred I. Raymond, and Alfred R. Thomson. Recollections of his capture, newspaper clippings, and photographs are included here.