Ohrdruf liberation photographs

Identifier

irn49803

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2012.406.1

Dates

1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn49803

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joel Adelman

Joel Adelman donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012. He received the photographs from a high school classmate whose father was a liberator.

Scope and Content

Consists of 20 photographs taken after the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945 by an unknown member of the American Army. Includes images of corpses immediately after liberation, of preparing, transporting, and burying these corpses, and of a pyre on which corpses were burned.

Subjects

Ohrdruf (Concentration camp)
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
Dead persons--Germany--Ohrdruf--1940-1950.

Genre

Document
Photographs.

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