Solomon Bogard collection

Identifier: irn719324
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn719324

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006, 2007, 2012, and 2018 by Solomon Bogard and Jill Bogard, daughter of Solomon Bogard.

Scope and Content

The collection primarily consists of post-war photographs and some newspaper clippings, mainly capturing liberation, that were collected by Solomon Bogard, an American GI during WWII.

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Solomon Bogard photograph collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn44712
- English
- 1940-1945
- folder 1
- Updated 9 months ago
Consists of prints and copyprints of photographs from the collection of Solomon Bogard. Obtained from various sources, the bulk of the photographs depict the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, Flossenbürg, Natzweiler-Struthof and Ohrdruf, as well as miscellaneous photographs of the capture of Nazi war criminals. Many are enlarged and many have original captions.
Post-war Chancellery photograph
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518267
- English
- 1945
- folder 1
- Updated 9 months ago
Consists of one photograph taken of six soldiers in the garden of the Chancellery building in Berlin. The soldiers are standing near a ditch purported to be the ditch in which Hitler's remains had been buried after his body was burned.
Solomon Bogard collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518432
- English
- 1941-1945
- folders 4
- Updated 9 months ago
Consists of 34 official photographs, taken after the liberation of the Woebbelin concentration camp, including the official Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) and Signal Corps descriptions of each photograph. Also includes a 1941 clipping from the London "Daily Mirror," showing a hanging in Yugoslavia and warning of the need to stop the Germans; as well as a sheet of Dutch ration stamps from the fall of 1944. Also includes a photograph of a crematorium in Vught, the Netherlands, photographs of Berlin at the end of the war, a photograph of victims of the Kaufering concen...
Solomon Bogard collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518749
- English
- 1945
- folders 3
- Updated 9 months ago
Consists of post-war photographs (including a photograph taken by Lee Miller) of the prison used by the Gestapo in Cologne, Germany. Also includes photographs of American and British officials touring the Buchenwald concentration camp, including one of Claire Booth Luce speaking with survivors. Also includes a photograph of a Nazi campaign poster, as well as post-liberation photographs of the Nordhausen and Landsberg concentration camps. Includes photographs of liberated prisoners at Buchenwald, German civilians touring the camp, and the arrest of Ilse Koch. Please also see 2006.171 and 200...
Solomon Bogard photograph collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn597341
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 9 months ago
Contains three photographic prints: two Signal Corps photographs of German civilians touring the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation, and one press photo of Alfred Jodl. Collected by Solomon Bogard (donor's father).
Bergen-Belsen photograph
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn721878
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 9 months ago
Consists of one black and white photograph of a memorial bearing text in Hebrew at Bergen-Belsen that was collected by Solomon Bogard, an American GI during WWII.

Solomon Bogard collection

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Solomon Bogard photograph collection

Post-war Chancellery photograph