Warsaw liquidation photographs

Identifier
irn517628
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.470
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517628

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Martin Forstenzer donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Oct. 3, 2005. He served in the United States Army between 1942 and 1946 and brought these photographs back from Europe.

Scope and Content

Consists of nine photographs from a photograph album used as evidence in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. The photographs depict the German liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. Also contains one large photograph of soldiers working inside a mass grave.

Corporate Bodies

  • Kaufering (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Warsaw (Poland)
  • Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw.

Genre

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.