Pete Pease photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Pete Pease
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Pete Pease donated the Pete Pease photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018.
Scope and Content
The Pete Pease photograph collection consists of approximately 40 photographs showing the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after its liberation in 1945. The photographs depict the corpses of victims, the interior of various barracks and camp buildings, the crematorium, gallows, the burial of victims, liberating soldiers, and camp survivors. Many of the photographs were taken by the US Army Signal Corps.
System of Arrangement
The Pete Pease photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Holocaust victims.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Germany.
- Crematoriums--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust survivors.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document