Rudy Baum photograph collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rudy Baum
Rudy Baum donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Scope and Content
The collection contains four photographs taken after Buchenwald's liberation in April 1945 that show American soldiers, survivors, and German civilians. All photos are stamped on verso with the name, address, and phone number of the donor as well as notes written in English that detail what is being depicted in each photograph. Includes images of victim bodies, German civiliians gathered around what is noted on verso to be a human skin lamp, and the gallows.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.
- Thuringia (Germany)
- Concentration camp inmates--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
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