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LETTERS HOME 1944-1946

MAY POSTS: #32 – May 3, 1945

On view: 2 pages

050345_1_mst — May 3, 1945, p. 1

050345_2_mst — p. 2

#33 – May 9 , 1945

On view: 4 pages (page 3 is numbered incorrectly as 2)

050945_1_mst — May 9, 1945, p. 1

050945_2_mst — p. 2

050945_3_mst — p. 3, (incorrectly numbered 2)

050945_4_mst — p. 4

#34 – May 16, 1945

On view: 4 pages, plus photo of “You are now Leaving Germany” (scroll to bottom)

051645_1_mst — May 16, 1945, p. 1

051645_2_mst — p. 2

051645_3_mst — p. 3

051645_4_mst — p. 4

You are now leaving Germany

Somewhere in early May, 1945, and then again mid-May of the same year, Solly’s unit left Germany and entered Austria, then returned to Germany for cleanup operations, and then later in June re-entered Germany once again.

This is one of Solly’s photos.

NP-Germany_Engineers_01_mst — You are now leaving Germany! Photo by Solly

#35 – May 18, 1945

On view: 4 pages

051845_1_mst — May 18, 1945, p. 1

051845_2_mst — p. 2

051845_3_mst — p. 3

051845_4_mst — p. 4

#36 – May 20, 1945

I saw two concentration camps . . .it’s horrible . . .

On view: 6 pages – This is one of the letters bound for the Holocaust Museum in D.C.

052045_1_mst — May 20, 1945, p. 1

052045_2_mst — p. 2

052045_3_mst — p. 3

052045_4_mst — p. 4

052045_5_mst — p. 5

052045_6_mst — p. 6

#37 – May 24, 1945

On view: 2 pages

052445_1_mst — May 24, 1945, p. 1

052445_2_mst — p. 2

#38 – May 28, 1945

On view: 4 pages

052845_1_mst — May 28, 1945, p. 1

052845_2_mst — p. 2

052845_3_mst — p. 3

052845_4_mst — p. 4