Robert Carty photograph collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Creator(s)
- Robert Carty
Biographical History
Robert Carty was a member of the 1st Platoon, Company A, 750th Tank Battalion, attached to the 104th Infantry Division Timberwolf Division during World War II.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Robert Carty
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Robert Carty in 2000.
Scope and Content
Consists of five photographs taken by Robert Carty in April 1945 depicting dozens of victims of Nazi atrocities laid out on the ground near row of buildings. Some of the photographs are labeled "Nordhausen" on the verso. Carty took the photographs while a member of the 1st Platoon, Company A, 750th Tank Batallion, 104th Infantry ("Timberwolf") Division, United States Army.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)
- Dead persons--Germany--Nordhausen (Thuringia)--1940-1950.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.