Erich Berges: Report re experiences in concentration camps

The author, Erich Berger, was born in December 1899 in Schwelm, Westphalia. He lost his parents, wife and children in the war and had been in camps since 1938 without interruption. It is thought that he was a political prisoner and not Jewish. This report describes conditions in Buchenwald then Mauthausen for this former prisoner. The collection also includes a handwritten summary of the contents in English. Open