Bernard S. Barr photographs
Extent and Medium
folders
oversize folder
3
1
Creator(s)
- Bernard S. Barr
Biographical History
Bernard S. Barr (1899-1988) was born in Brooklyn, NY on December 12, 1899 to Max and Ray Barr. He served stateside in the US Army during World War I. During World War II, he served as a Captain and was a liberator of Dachau.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Gregory Barr
Gregory Barr donated the Bernard S. Barr photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020. Gregory Barr is the grandson of Bernard S. Barr.
Scope and Content
The Bernard S. Barr photographs include two photographs of Barr during World War II; photographic negatives of the liberation of Dachau, including images of Barr at the camp, along with corresponding prints; and stereoscopic photographs from the 1937 “Reichsparteitag der Arbeit” Nazi propaganda series. The propaganda photographs are numbered 38, 55- 56, 58-61, 64-72, 74, 77, 96, 98-100. They were part of a compilation issued by Raumbild-Verlag Otto Schönstein with photographs by Heinrich Hoffmann and text by Pitter Gern.
System of Arrangement
The Bernard S. Barr photographs are arranged as four files.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Nazi propaganda--Germany.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document