Buchenwald liberation photograph

Identifier

irn518395

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2007.320

Dates

1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945

Level of Description

Item

Languages

English

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518395

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Pamela Hunt McDonald and the Hunt family donated this photograph to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 9, 2006.

Scope and Content

Consists of one photograph, almost certainly of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation, of two piles of corpses.

Corporate Bodies

Buchenwald (Concentration camp)

Subjects

World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

Genre

Photographs.
Document

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.