166th Signal Corps liberation images

Identifier
irn44507
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.373.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Elizabeth Apisa

Elizabeth Apisa donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which was obtained by her husband while he was a member of the Signal Corps unit.

Scope and Content

Consists of paper cards with printed photographs of images of concentration camp liberation which were taken by the 166th Signal Corps company. Includes the burial of slave laborers killed near Nurnberg and near Wetterfeld and Schwarzenfeld as well as images of corpses discovered at the Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, and Hergenheim concentration camps.

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Genre

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