Leon Denski photograph

Identifier

irn43768

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2011.292.1

Dates

1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn43768

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Kenneth L. Denski

This photo was brought home from WWII by Leon A. Denski (donor's father). Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Kenneth L. Denski.

Scope and Content

Contains a photographic print, black and white, showing two American soldiers standing next to large pile of bodies to buried; taken in an unidentified concentration camp after liberation; dated April-May 1945. This photo was brought home from WWII by Leon A. Denski (donor's father) whose job after liberation was to bury the bodies that were found in the camps into mass graves.

Subjects

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

Genre

Photograph.
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.