Buchenwald liberation photographs

Identifier
irn518500
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.352
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518500

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Dale Grenstiner donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Dec. 2, 2005. His father, Joseph Gregory Grenstiner, was a member of the United States Army Signal Corps.

Scope and Content

Consists of 22 photographs which were taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of piles of corpses stacked outside of the crematoria, photographs of buildings, and of a Hitler dummy hanged in effigy.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

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

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.