John Regnier collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of John Regnier
John Regnier donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in December 2012.
Scope and Content
Consists of photocopies of photographs taken by John Regnier after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp, as Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton toured the camp, as well as one original photograph of soldiers viewing corpses. Also includes a panoramic photograph of the town of Ebensee, Austria, the typed text of a letter written by Regnier from Austria on May 6, 1945, and an essay entitled "My Visit to a German Concentration Camp" which Mr. Regnier wrote as a term paper in 1946 after returning to the United States. In the essay, he describes what he saw at Ohrdruf and the operations of the camp.
People
- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
- Regnier, John.
- Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945.
- Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
- Concentration camps--Austria--Ebensee.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.