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Allen Chamovitz recording

Collection
Chamovitz-Eger Family Papers and Photographs
Source
Rauh Jewish Archives at the Heinz History Center
Family
The Chamovitz Family
Date
August 7, 1942

Allen Chamovitz recorded this audio letter to his mother shortly after enlisting in the U.S. Army. The following summer, he died in a training accident at Alamogordo Army Air Base in New Mexico.

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