Harry L. Smith photograph collection

Identifier
irn514424
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.25
  • RG-09.067
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514424

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Professor Howard Wisch.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of 23 photographs taken at Buchenwald at the time of liberation that show camp structures, crematoria, corpses, and liberated prisoners. The photographs were taken by Harry L. Smith in April 1945, when he was a medic with the 628th Medical Clearing Company of the U.S. First Army.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is in the order in which received

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Corporate Bodies

  • United States. Army. Army, 1st

Subjects

  • Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
  • Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.

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.