Buchenwald concentration camp liberation photographs

Identifier
irn501140
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1988.A.0123
  • RG-09.054
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501140

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Casper Vollero

Biographical History

Casper Vollero, a member of the 406th Infantry Division, Company L, Ozark Division, took these photographs at the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection by transfer from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Department in Sept. 1995. The Collections Department received the photographs from Casper Vollero.

Scope and Content

Contains three photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation. One photograph shows a concentration camp oven and two photographs show a large pile of corpses in front of a building.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is by original order

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
  • Weimar (Germany)
  • Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.

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.