Dr. Jesse Hofer collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jessica Aiken and Beth Hutchings
Jessica Aiken and Beth Hutchings donated their father's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in March 2009.
Scope and Content
Consists of eight color copyprints taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of camp buildings, survivors, corpses, and the bodies of SS officers killed after liberation. Also includes six chapters (approximately 100 pages) of the memoir of Dr. Jesse Hofer, PhD, MD, entitled "From Behind Those Fences." In the memoir, Dr. Hofer describes what he witnessed upon the liberation of Buchenwald and his reflections on what he saw there.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.
- Photographs.
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