Benjamin Finesmith collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Libby Stortz donated her father's collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jan. 24, 2005.
Scope and Content
Consists of photographs and photographic negatives, taken upon the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Also contains correspondence from American soldier Benjamin Finesmith asking family and friends to send care packages to the displaced persons in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Negatives.
- Document
- Photographs.