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Letters from War: Irvin Schwartz’s World War II correspondence with the West Schuylkill Press-Herald

A Schuylkill County native’s letters from the Second World War.

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Recent Posts

  • A Pottsville Civil War veteran recalls his teenage years in a community at war and enlisting to fight for the Union
  • Advertisements for businesses in and around Lykens, Pennsylvania – February 1872
  • Charles Miner’s description of the mining industry in Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley – 1830 (Part One)
  • Letters from War – A meeting of Schuylkill County natives on the front lines in Europe, December 1944
  • A vaccination campaign for schoolchildren in Schuylkill County in the 1850s
  • Letters from War – A delayed letter describing the German “Siegfried Line” and celebrating Ernie Pyle, 1944

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