Talk:Ervin Feldheim

Feldheim's death

The text says Feldheim was killed by the Nazis, but the Arolsen Archives have his registration card as a prisoner in Dachau, and it was stamped by the U.S. Army saying they liberated him (i.e., when the U.S. Army liberated Dachau, they found Feldheim there, alive. How reliable are the sources on his death? Gazilion (talk) 14:12, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

After the camp was liberated by the US Army, these cards were used once again in Dachau. Prisoners saved the registry office cards from destruction and updated them for the International Information Office (IIO) in Dachau. On the cards for around 10,000 prisoners, they noted whether these prisoners had survived in one of the 140 sub-camps of Dachau (“Delivered in out-detail by U.S. Army”) or in the main camp (“Delivered in the camp by U.S. Army”). However, this did not necessarily mean that the prisoner was actually in the main camp or a sub-camp at this time. Even the cards of prisoners who had been liberated on an evacuation march or outside the camp were stamped. If a card bears one of these two stamps, it means that on April 29, 1945, the day of liberation, either the prisoner was still alive or the IIO had not been informed that the prisoner had died. If the IIO did find out about the death of a prisoner, in some cases this was noted on the registry office card afterwards. These stamps are only found on registry office cards from Dachau; on the registry office cards from other camps this information was not noted.

-- Arolsen Archives, emphasis added

I'm removing the contradictory tag. The quote above suggests the stamp shouldn't be considered a definite affirmation of liberation. Jpers36 (talk) 20:53, 27 August 2021 (UTC)