Salem (Mass.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Ralph Chester Lapham papers
Collection — Single Folder Collections -2004 Box 7 (04.0217-04.0263), Folder: 04.0253
Identifier: 04.0253
Scope and Contents
Private Ralph Chester Lapham served with the 116th Evacuation Hospital during World War II in the European Theater of Operations. Chester assisted with providing care for former prisoners of Dachau concentration camp after the camp's liberation. The collection contains photographs of the camp and letters describing the unit's work setting up a hospital at Dachau and a Typhus epidemic.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1944-1945; Other: Majority of material found in 1944-1945; Other: Date acquired: 2004-09-08
Found in:
FSU Special Collections & Archives
