Post-liberation photographs of Nordhausen concentration camp
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
James C. Ernest took the photographs of post-liberation scenes in Nordhausen concentration camp in Apr. 1945. At the time, he served with the Company A of the 238th Engineer Combat Battalion of the U.S. Army. His donated copyprints were received by the Archives by transfer from the Collections Department in Sept. 1995.
Scope and Content
Contains ten black-and-white copyprints of photographs of Nordhausen concentration camp taken by James C. Ernest, a member of Company A of the 238th Engineer Combat Battalion, shortly after liberation in April 1945. The photographs contain images of victims' bodies and burial of victims in mass graves by German citizens.
Corporate Bodies
- Dora (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 104th
Subjects
- Mass burials--Germany--Nordhausen--Photographs.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Nordhausen--Photographs.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
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