Lt. Col. Martin Joyce collection
Extent and Medium
folder
oversize boxes
1
3
Creator(s)
- Martin Joyce
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Wayland High School
This collection was discovered at Wayland High School's History building as the staff prepared to move to a new campus. The students digitized and researched the papers, creating an online exhibit about Lt. Col Joyce. Wayland High School donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in June 2013.
Scope and Content
Consists of Dachau documents, scrapbook, military files and photographs created by and for Lt. Col. Martin W. Joyce, the American commanding officer of Dachau following liberation. Includes an album presented to Joyce from the Yugoslav prisoners committee which includes original prints and annotations of photograph of Dachau that were later mass-produced.
People
- Joyce, Martin.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Army, 7th
- Yugoslav People’s Army
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Dachau.
Genre
- Document
- Scrapbook.
- Photographs.