Jacob Yessenow collection

Identifier: irn715457
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn715457

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 and in 2020 by Joyce Hallet, the daughter of Jacob Yessenow.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of photographs: post-liberation images of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp. Images include piles of bodies in wagons, laid and waiting to be buried and placed in mass graves by local Austrian bystanders. Also included is a view of the camp and interior barracks where surviving victims still remained; dated circa May 1945. Photographs belonged to Jacob Yessenow (donor's father) a member of the US Army's 11th Armored Division. The collection also includes two cameras used by Jacob Yessenow to take photographs of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp.

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Jacob Yessenow photograph collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn548164
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Photographs: post-liberation images of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp. Images include piles of bodies in wagons, laid and waiting to be buried and placed in mass graves by local Austrian bystanders. Also included is a view of the camp and interior barracks where surviving victims still remained; dated circa May 1945. Photographs belonged to Jacob Yessenow (Joyce Hallet's father) a member of the US Army's 11th Armored Division.
Zeiss Ikon camera
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn716971
- English
- a: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) b: Height: 25.500 inches (64.77 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 1.630 inches (4.14 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
German camera used by Jacob Yessenow to take photographs of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp.
Gelto DIII camera
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn716974
- English
- a: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 3.630 inches (9.22 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 4.130 inches (10.49 cm) | Depth: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Japanese camera used by Jacob Yessenow to take photographs of victims in the former Mauthausen concentration camp.

Jacob Yessenow collection

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Jacob Yessenow photograph collection

Zeiss Ikon camera

Gelto DIII camera