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Aaron A. Eiferman Letter: Page 1Page 1 of a letter from Aaron E. Eiferman: "We have seen what can be called the living dead"
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Aaron A. Eiferman Letter: Page 2Page 2 of a letter from Aaron E. Eiferman: "the sight that hit me was more than a person could express"
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Aaron A. Eiferman Letter: Page 3Page 1 of a letter from Aaron E. Eiferman: "It was to much for me, for I had tears in my eyes"
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Aaron A. Eiferman Letter: Page 4Page 4 of a letter from Aaron E. Eiferman: "he was going back to the town he lived in and wait for her even if he had to wait the rest of his life"
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Aaron A. Eiferman Letter: Page 5Page 5 of a letter from Aaron E. Eiferman: "Although I may never talk about what I have witnesed today. I will never forget what I have seen."
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Aaron A. Eiferman Letter: EnvelopeEnvelope containing Aaron A. Eiferman's letter to his wife.
Letters from Liberators: Aaron A. Eiferman
In April and May 1945, Allied forces liberated thousands of prisoners from Nazi concentration camps. Soldiers who had read and heard reports of Nazi crimes now confronted the evidence first hand. Shocked, angered, and horrified by what they saw, they recorded their observations in reports to their superiors and letters home to loved ones so as to ensure that others would know the truth about what they had seen.
Aaron A. Eiferman, a member of the 12th Armored Division, wrote this letter to his wife in the United States. He describes his experiences as the 12th overran a Dachau subcamp in the Landsberg area on April 27, 1945.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Aaron A. Eiferman
