Photographs of corpses at Buchenwald
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Milwaukee Jewish Archives
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.
The Milwaukee Jewish Archives donated the photographs of corpses at Buchenwald to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992.
Scope and Content
Consists of eight photographs depicting corpses of prisoners found at the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. The caption "Buchenwald Concentration Camp / April 1945," is handwritten on the verso of each photo.
System of Arrangement
The photographs of corpses at Buchenwald are arranged in a single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950.
- Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.