Donald R. Wheeler photographs

Identifier
irn513625
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1988.94.1
  • RG-10.263
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Donald R. Wheeler donated the Donald R. Wheeler photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988.

Scope and Content

The collection contains gelatin-silver photographs of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. The photographs include scenes of camp buildings, instruments of torture, lamp shades made by Ilse Koch, newly freed prisoners of the concentration camps, bodies of camp victims, human remains, Allied soldiers within the camps, crematoriums, and prisoners displaying their tattooed numbers. The photographs were created by members of the United States Air Force 30th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron in 1945.

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Collection is arranged in its original order

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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.