Edward Kauffman collection

Identifier

irn45698

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2012.176.1

Dates

1 Jan 1944 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn45698

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Cynthia Kauffman

Cynthia Kauffman donated her late husband's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.

Scope and Content

Consists of 20 photographs taken and collected by Edward Kauffmann, a member of the 166th Infantry, part of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division of the United States Army. Includes aerial photographs of Paris, France taken in 1944, photographs of the destruction of buildings in France, and images taken of survivors and of corpses after the liberation of Buchenwald.

Corporate Bodies

Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Subjects

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

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.