SHAEF photographs

Identifier
irn521799
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.153
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521799

Extent and Medium

box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Mr. Scott Sherman donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Apr. 9, 2004. His father, Rabbi Jerome Sherman, received them from a student in a class on Judaica at Rice University in the 1970s. The collection is donated in loving memory of Rabbi Jerome Sherman.

Scope and Content

Consists of 58 photographs taken upon the liberation of various concentration camps (including Dachau, Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Kaufering IV, Dora-Mittelbau, Bergen-Belsen, and photographs of the Gardelegen massacre). Also includes wartime photographs of mass arrests of Jews in Amsterdam and photographs taken upon the liberation of that city as well as photographs taken after a massacre of Belgian civilians by the Nazis in 1945. The photographs have been thoroughly described on cards which have been fixed to the back of each photograph. The photographs have been approved by SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces) censors.

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.