Glass slides of photographs from unidentified concentration camp, post-liberation.
Extent and Medium
8 glass slides,
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Purchase, 2016.
Scope and Content
Glass slides (8), containing photographic images of scenes in a liberated concentration camp, depicting liberated prisoners in barracks, United States military personnel, and corpses of victims. One image shows a former prisoner with a United States soldier, pointing toward an oven, and another shows an American soldier addressing a group of civilians, presumably German, standing in front of a crematorium. The provenance of these images is unknown.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Document
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