Eugene Berger collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eugene Berger
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Eugene Berger donated the Eugene Berger collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.
Scope and Content
Consists of two identity cards and two photographs. One card is for the Diplaced Persons Assembly Center 578, Lampertheim, has Eugene Berger's photograph on it, and is signed by the Director of the UNRRA. The second card is for securing rations and has Mr. Berger's right thumb print on the card. Both are dated 1946. The two photographs are of post-war Buchenwald. The photographic print of the Weimar civilians looking at the gallow has dittoed information on the back and is from "Photo-France A.E.P." The photograph of the bodies at the camp has very faint dittoed information on it.
System of Arrangement
The Eugene Berger collection is arranged in a single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Lampertheim (Germany)
- Displaced persons--Europe.
- Germany.
- Holocaust victims.
- Holocaust survivors.
Genre
- Document
- Identification cards.
- Photographs.