Scope and Contents
The collection includes Nazi memorabilia brought back from the Dachau concentration camp by David Clement, as well as printed matter and copies of correspondence that relate Clement's experiences treating typhus in Dachau.
Dates
- 1943-1995
- Majority of material found within 1943 - 1945
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
The collection must be used under the supervision of a reference archivist.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by the donor of this collection for materials authored or otherwise produced by David Hale Clement. After the lifetime of the Donor, copyright passes to Yale University. Copyright status for other collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Constance Clement, 2003.
Extent
3.25 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The collection includes Nazi memorabilia brought back from the Dachau concentration camp by David Clement, as well as printed matter and copies of correspondence that relate Clement's experiences treating typhus in Dachau.
Biographical / Historical
David Hale Clement was born July 22, 1909, in Buffalo, New York. He was a member of the Yale College Class of 1931 and the Harvard Medical School Class of 1935. During World War II, he served in the Army Medical Corps. After the liberation of the concentration camps, he was sent to Dachau to treat a typhus epidemic that had broken out among the prisoners. After the war, Clement returned to New Haven and served as a pediatrician and as a clinical professor of pediatrics at Yale from 1946 until 1989. Clement died in March 1991.
- Title
- Preliminary Guide to the David Hale Clement Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- compiled by staff of Manuscripts and Archives
- Date
- February 2003
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
Yale University Library
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New Haven CT 06520-8240 US
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Location
Sterling Memorial Library
Room 147
120 High Street
New Haven, CT 06511