Buchenwald liberation photographs

Identifier

irn514736

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2004.202

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514736

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Marge Hess donated her uncle's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Mar. 13, 2001.

Scope and Content

Consists of 13 photographs taken by Jay C. Christensen, a member of the Air Corps from Elk Horn, Iowa, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of survivors of the camp.

Corporate Bodies

Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Subjects

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

Genre

Document
Photographs.

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.