Irving Fink photograph collection

Identifier
irn713349
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2019.288.2
  • 2019.288.1
  • 2019.472.1
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn713349

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Irving Fink

Biographical History

Irving Fink (c.1920-1997) served in the United States Army during World War II. He married Dorothy Schlossberg and had two sons, Allan and Sheldon.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Allan Schlossberg

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Allan Schlossberg

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

The Irving Fink photograph collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Allan Schlossberg, nephew of Irving Fink. The collections numbered 2019.288.1 and 2019.472.1 have been incorporated into this collection.

Scope and Content

The collection includes three photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and a photograph of US soldiers in Domazlice, Czechoslovakia. Irving Fink, who served in the United States Army, brought the photographs home with him after the war.

People

  • Fink, Irving.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Domažlice (Czechoslovakia)
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.