Photographs of Hermann Göring and of concentration camps

Identifier
irn30236
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2000.437.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Frank Lerro

Frank Lerro donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.

Scope and Content

Consists of 36 photographic prints bearing images of Hermann Göring during meetings, with his family and with Adolf Hitler; the film with these images was found by a soldier while the donor's unit was marching through Mannheim, Germany. The images were developed contemporaneously. Also contains seven photographic prints bearing images of concentration camps (most likely Dachau concentration camp), taken by Harry Mueller while on assignment as a photographer with the U.S. Army, dated April 1945.

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