Edda Treforest photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Edda Treforest
Biographical History
Edda Treforest (b. Edda Wind) was a Holocaust survivor and was employed as a translator for Ms. E.I. England, head of the British Red Cross contingent at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her husband, Samuel Treforest was a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation (UNRRA) official who took photographs of Bergen-Belsen concentraiton camp.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Edda Treforest donated the Edda Treforest photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992.
Scope and Content
The Edda Treforest photograph collection consists of photographs depicting nurses treating patients at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation, the canteen that Samuel Treforest opened at Bergen-Belsen after World War II, and Edda Treforest as a young woman. The photographs were likely taken by Samuel Treforest.
System of Arrangement
The Edda Treforest photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Treforest, Edda.
- Treforest, Samuel.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Sick persons--1940-1950.
- Military hospitals--Germany--1940-1950.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Canteens (Wartime, emergency, etc.)--Germany--1940-1950.
- Nurses--Germany.
- Germany.
- Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.
- Monuments & memorials--Germany--1940-1950.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.