Dachau liberation photographs and narrative "Remembering the Holocaust"
Extent and Medium
folders
3
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marilyn Spencer
Marilyn Spencer donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in 2013. She added an accretion in 2015.
Scope and Content
Consists of enlarged prints, photographs, and photographic negatives of images taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, including a print showing the headline of the 45th Division News when the war ended, prints of images of survivors, perpetrators being arrested, and of the Dachau death train. Also includes one narrative entitled "Remembering the Holocaust" by Marilyn Spencer, describing the experiences of a Jewish intelligence officer (unnamed in the text, but identified as Chester Kaplan) who participated in the liberation of Dachau.
People
- Kaplan, Chester.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany--Dachau--Liberation.
Genre
- Personal narratives.
- Document
- Photographs.