The Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Irvin H. Stern donated the Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996.
Scope and Content
The Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection consists of photographs of the Mauthausen concentration camp, taken by Irvin Stern on May 10, 1945. The photographs show the camp following liberation and include images of survivors and victims, the mass burial of corpses, as well as buildings, fences, and the crematorium. The letters, in the form of memoirs, relate to the Irvin Stern's experiences at Mauthausen and how he came in contact with Dal Lorvic, a Yugoslavian resistance fighter and a survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp.
System of Arrangement
The Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Stern, Irvin H.
- Lorvic, Dal.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Austria.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust victims.
- Concentration camps.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
- Photographs.