Jacob Yessenow photograph collection

Identifier
irn548164
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2016.293.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn548164

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joyce and Michael Hallet

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Joyce Hallet, daughter of Jacob Yessenow.

Scope and Content

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.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.

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.

Other Connected Items