Post-liberation photographs of a German concentration camp

Identifier
irn506444
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1988.A.0031
  • RG-04.073
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn506444

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

George Manias collected the photographs while in Germany after World War II. His sister, Mary Stratis, donated them to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the photographs by transfer from the Collections Department in Sept. 1995.

Scope and Content

Contains eight black-and-white photographs of scenes at a German concentration camp after liberation. Included are photographs of the crematoriums, mass gravesites, and execution sites.The presumed date range of the photographs is from 1945 to 1946.

Subjects

  • Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Mass burials--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Concentration camps--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Executions--Germany--1940-1950.
  • 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.