Anthony Dotta 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 Wayne Dotta
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Wayne Dotta, the son of Anthony Dotta.
Scope and Content
The Anthony Dotta photograh collection consists of photographs of the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps. The photographs depict United States soldiers standing among corpses in the camps, the burial of victims by German civilians, the gallows of Ohrdruf, and the crematoria at Buchenwald concentration camp. It is believed that the photographer was either John Pagotto or Louis Pagotta, friends of Anthony Dotta.
System of Arrangement
The Anthony Dotta photograph collection is arranged as a single series.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- United States. Army.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Soldiers--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Crematoriums--Germany.
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Buchenwald--Germany.
- Holocaust victims.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document