Harold Rosenn photograph collection

Identifier
irn514658
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.128.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514658

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 2004 by Harold Rosenn.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of 5 photographs of concentration camp scenes after liberation, including images of victims of Nazi atrocities being excavated and reburied by German civilians, corpses laid in a row awaiting burial with burned remains of buildings in background, a survivor still wearing concentration camp uniform, and the interior of inhabited barracks.

Subjects

  • Barracks--1940-1950.
  • Dead persons--1940-1950.
  • Concentration camps.
  • Prisoners--1940-1950.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
  • Mass burials--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.