Henry "Sonny" Schloss photographs
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Emily Singer
Paul and Emily Singer donated her father's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
Scope and Content
Consists of nine photographs from the collection of Henry "Sonny" Schloss, a member of the United States Army Signal Corps, who participated in the liberation of Dachau. Includes photographs of victims of the death train, of guards killed by American troops by summary justice, and of Schloss himself. Includes a photograph (likely not taken at Dachau) of Schloss in front of a train car on which is written the hometowns of members of the "Fightin 659th."
People
- Schloss, Henry.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Dachau.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.