Sirman family collection

Identifier
irn514279
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.283
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1949
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514279

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Sara Sirman donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Aug. 25, 2003. She is an archivist at the Museum and the photographs are from her family's collection.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of three photographs: one of a wedding portrait, and two of a man in a concentration camp uniform. The collection also contains one booklet in German, published by the Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, showing photographs and describing the history and conditions of the camps of Ohrdruf, Buchenwald, Belsen, Gardelegen, and Nordhausen.

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

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.