World War II pictorial collection

Identifier
XX222
Language of Description
English
Dates
1937 - 1945
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI

Scope and Content

Photographs and postcards, depicting a variety of scenes and personalities from World War II.Includes two collections formerly cataloged as: Breendock Concentration Camp. Photographs, n.d. l envelope. Depicts the World War II German concentration camp of Breendock (Antwerp, Belgium). Distributed by the Police Judiciaire, Anvers. Preliminary inventory. This set of 56 photographs depicts the locality, buildings, and camp structures. It does not contain photographs of people. Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Photographs, l945 46. Depicts the Buchenwald Concentration Camp and the memorial to the 5l,000 persons who died there.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

181 envelopes, 1 ms. box, 1 oversize box, 3 album boxes, 2 slide boxes, 1 oversize folder.

Finding Aids

Archivist Note

Status: October 1980, revised most recently August 2016 by Agnes F. Peterson

Sources

  • The Hoover Institution Archives: Annotated list of archival materials relating to the Holocaust (Inclued materials relating to Jews, Jewish communities in various countries, Zionism, and antisemitism)

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0