Post-liberation Buchenwald photographs

Identifier
irn506433
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1988.A.0116
  • RG-04.068
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn506433

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Robert S. Hyman, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond, Virginia, donated the photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in September 1988.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of copyprints taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by the United States Army in April 1945.

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranges as a single series.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Buchenwald (Concentration Camp)
  • Concentration camp inmates--Germany.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.

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.