Testimonies concerning the liberation of Mauthausen
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The materials were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives by Leo Selesnick in Feb. 1992 via Shaike Weinberg, Museum Director.
Scope and Content
Consists of copies of various testimonies by liberators, a Holocaust survivor, and a Holocaust perpetrator concerning the Mauthausen concentration camp. Also included is a copy of the confession of Franz Ziereis, a former commander of Mauthausen, and copies of photographs of various scenes in the camp after liberation.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
People
- Soswinski, Ludwig.
- Caughey, Colvin W.
- Ziereis, Franz.
- Orr, Horace Jr.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Burial.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Gas chambers.
- Holocaust survivors.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.
- Photographs.
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