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

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn44507

Extent and Medium

folder

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.

Subjects

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
Concentration camps--Germany-Buchenwald.

Genre

Document
Photographs.

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