Dr. David Rosenberg photograph collection

Identifier
irn521688
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.43.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521688

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Rosenberg

The photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Dr. David Rosenberg.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of eight photographs of concentration camp scenes from either Dachau or Buchenwald taken immediately following liberation. Scenes depict victims being exhumed and reburied with German civilians and American soldiers taking part in the work, trucks containing victims, the interior of barracks, and a gallows.

Subjects

  • Gallows--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Barracks--Germany--1940-1950.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
  • Soldiers--American--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
  • Mass burials--Germany--1940-1950.

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.