John Stix collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judith Stix
Judith Stix donated her brother-in-law's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012.
Scope and Content
Consists of 34 photographs taken at the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps by John Stix, who was part of the 166th Signal Photo Corps in the United States Army. The photographs depict images of the camp grounds, of survivors, of corpses, and includes portraits of several survivors. Some of the photographs have descriptions on the verso and some are mounted on black paper.
People
- Stix, John.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Concentration camps--Germany-Buchenwald.
- Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.