Willis Hancock liberation photograph negatives

Identifier

irn514681

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2004.187

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514681

Extent and Medium

41 photographic negatives,

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Larry Hancock donated these photographic negatives to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jan. 6, 2003. They were taken by his father, Willis Hancock, who was a member of the Rainbow Division of the United States Army, which liberated Dachau.

Scope and Content

Contains negatives of photographs taken upon the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, 1945.

Subjects

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

Genre

Negatives.
Document

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.