Sergeant Donald Blanchard photographs

Identifier
irn49755
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.369.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn49755

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Donald and James Blanchard

Donald and James Blanchard donated their father's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.

Scope and Content

Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The photographs, which depict piles of corpses and crematorium ovens, were taken by Donald Harry Blanchard, a Staff Sergeant in the 399rd Field Artillery Battalion of the 8th Armored Division. The photographs are described on the front of the images.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

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

Genre

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.