Charles "Bud" Norris photographs

Identifier
irn37910
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.285
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn37910

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jerimy Norris

Jerimy Norris donated his father's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on 27 May 2009.

Scope and Content

Consists of 25 photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The images show victims of the Dachau death train, piles of corpses, members of the United States Army, and various buildings around the camp. The photographs were taken by an unknown member of the 283d Field Artillery Battalion and given to Charles (Bud) Norris, a member of the same battalion, who annotated the photographs on the verso and dated them 25-26 May 1945.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.