Fred Haber Signal Corps collection

Identifier
irn36415
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.288
Dates
1 Jan 1933 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joseph Haber

Joseph Haber donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Scope and Content

Consists of 8x10 black and white Signal Corps photographs taken during and immediately after World War II. Includes photographs of Allied conferences (including Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam, and Quebec), journalists visiting the concentration camps in April 1945, the capitulations of both Japan and Germany, the Nuremberg trials, Landsberg prison, members of the Signal Corps, USO shows, atrocities in the Pacific theater, the death of Benito Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt's funeral procession, and the 1945 victory parade in Washington DC, as well as many other candid and posed photographs. The photographs are from the collection of Technical Sergeant Fred Haber, who developed the images.

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Genre

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