Dachau liberation photographs

Identifier

irn39500

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2010.116
RG-09.083

Dates

1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn39500

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Stephanie Wood

Stephanie Wood donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on January 5, 2010. She discovered them in the home of her late uncle, who was a member of the United States Army during World War II.

Scope and Content

The Dachau liberation photographs consists of thirteen photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp in April 1945. Some of the photographs are mass-produced liberation photographs, while others, including photographs of survivors in the camp and of the collection and burial of bodies, are less common images.

System of Arrangement

The Dachau liberation photographs is arranged in a single series.

Corporate Bodies

Dachau (Concentration camp)

Subjects

Concentration camps--Germany--Dachau--Pictorial works.
Holocaust survivors.
Germany.
Holocaust victims.
Dachau (Germany)
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Concentration camp inmates.
Concentration camps--Germany--Dachau.

Genre

Photographs.
Document

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.