Dachau liberation photographs

Identifier

irn41584

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2010.295

Dates

1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn41584

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Aaron Enfield

Aaron Enfield donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 9, 1945.

Scope and Content

Consists of two photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Includes one photograph of a room filled with corpses, and one photograph of two American soldiers looking at corpses in an open railcar.

Corporate Bodies

Dachau (Concentration camp)

Subjects

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.