Henry Barson collection

Identifier

irn39275

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2009.366
RG-09.084

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39275

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Henry Barson

Henry Barson donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Feb. 4, 2010. He participated in the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.

Scope and Content

Consists of 49 photographs of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen from the collection of Henry Barson, a member of the 249th Battery of the British 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, 11th Armoured Division, which liberated the camp on April 15, 1945. Includes portraits of survivors and images of the burial of bodies.

Subjects

Concentration camps--Germany--Bergen Belsen.
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

Genre

Document
Photographs.

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.