John Turbish photograph collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Creator(s)
- John Turbish
Biographical History
John Turbish served with the 91st Medical Gas Treatment Battalion as First Lieutenant. His unit, which served as Medical Corp, was deployed to Europe twenty-four days after D-Day. John’s commanding officer suggested that he should go and see the liberated camp of Buchenwald. He took his camera and entered the camp through a hole in a fence. Lt. Col. John Turbish retired from the United States Army and lived in Florida.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of John Turbish
The photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by John Turbish in 1999.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of eight photographs depicting the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp by United States troops.
People
- Turbish, John.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Dead persons--Germany--1940-1950.
- Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.
- Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950.
- Monuments & memorials--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.