Yves Masson collection

Identifier
irn514340
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2000.553.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yves Masson

Donated by Yves Masson to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.

Scope and Content

Group of black and white photographs: 26 mounted on two album pages and 2 loose photographs. Three photo reproductions from newspapers. Photographic prints: two pages, possibly removed from photograph album, bearing 26 captioned images, post-liberation in concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald, taken by Pierre Jean Louis Masson (donor's father) who was part of Red Cross (in France) attached to American 3rd Army. Five loose 5 x 7 black and white images, two depicting stacked corpses in Buchenwald and three are photographic reproductions of vintage newspaper articles, in French, also depicting atrocities uncovered in camps Bergen-Belsen and Vaihingen, sub-camp of Natzweiler, dated circa Spring 1945, Germany, inscriptions on photograph album pages and newspaper articles in French.

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Genre

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