Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection
Extent and Medium
oversize folder
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Creator(s)
- Royce S. Weisenberger Sr.
Biographical History
Major Weisenberger was the Chief of the Military Government Section of the Sixth Armored Division when the Division took over Buchenwald.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Royce S. Weisenberger
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Judge Royce S. Weisenberger, Sr. donated the Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
Scope and Content
The Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection consists of photographs of men, women, and children being loaded into a train at Buchenwald concentration camp, June 1945; newspaper clippings regarding liberation and the arrest of Dr. Robert Karl Neuman; and a three-page testimony written by Major Royce S. Weisenberger on the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp and its conditions.
System of Arrangement
The Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Weisenberger, Royce S.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Soldiers--United States.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.
- Photographs.
- Newspaper clippings.
- Newspaper articles.