John Krasny photograph collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Creator(s)
- John Krasny
Biographical History
John Krasny was born in Vienna, Austria. He left Austria in 1933 for Czechoslovakia and in 1938 immigrated to the United States. In 1945 he served as a translator in CIC – the counterintelligence unit of the US Army.
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.
John Krasny donated the John Krasny photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.
Scope and Content
The John Krasny photograph collection consists of eight photographs given to John Krasny by Steve, a fellow member of the counterintelligence unit of the United States Army. Steve [last name unknown] retrieved them from an unidentified German soldier. The photographs are images of Stalag XI D/321 camp for Soviet POWs in Oerbke, Germany, November 1941-Febraury 1942. The POWs were captured during the Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. Between November 1941 and February 1942, approximately 50,000 Soviet POWs died of starvation, hypothermia, and disease in the camp.
System of Arrangement
The John Krasny photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
Subjects
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Soldiers--United States.
- Prisoners of war, 1940-1950.
- Military personnel--German--1940-1950.
- Oerbke (Germany)
- Germany.
- Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.
- Prisoners of war.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.