Eugene Cohen photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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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.
Eugene Cohen donated the Eugene Cohen photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993.
Scope and Content
Eugune Cohen photograph collection consists of 45 photographs taken at Mauthausen concentration camp, Ebensee concentration camp, and Gusen concentration camp in Austria at the time of liberation. The photographs include images of concentration camp victims and corpses, male and female concentration camp survivors, the buildings and crematoria of the camps, members of the Nazi party, as well as Eugene Cohen and other unidentified soldiers. Handwritten and typed captions in English are on the verso.
System of Arrangement
The Eugene Cohen photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Krebsbach, Eduard, 1894-1947.
- Ziereis, Franz, 1905-1945.
- Cohen, Eugene S.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Austria.
- Barracks--Austria--1940-1950.
- Mass burials--Austria--1940-1950.
- Crematoriums--Austria--1940-1950.
- Prisoners--Austria--1940-1950.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Austria.
- Barbed wire--1940-1950.
- Ebensee (Austria)
- Dead persons--Austria--1940-1950.
- Soldiers--American--Austria--1940-1950.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document