Thomas Benson collection
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Thomas Benson
Biographical History
Thomas B. Benson served as a Major in the United States Army assigned to the 301st Combat Engineer Battalion.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Art and Artifacts Branch received these photographs from the Family of Thomas B. Benson (Martha Benson McGrane) on Apr. 25, 2000. The photographs were transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Apr. 25, 2000.
Scope and Content
Contains seven black-and-white photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation. Thomas B. Benson took these photographs during World War II while serving as a Major in the United States Army assigned to the 301st Combat Engineer Battalion
People
- Benson, Thomas B.
Corporate Bodies
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Weimar (Germany)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.