Donald R. Wheeler photographs
Extent and Medium
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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.
System of Arrangement
Collection is arranged in its original order
People
- Koch, Ilse, 1906-1967.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Air Forces
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust victims.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Crematoriums--Germany.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Soldiers--United States.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document