Solomon Bogard collection

Identifier
irn518432
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.171.1
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Dutch
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

4

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Solomon Bogard donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 19, 2006.

Scope and Content

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 concentration camp, a photograph of a hanging in the Soviet Union, photographs of Breendonck, US Army official photographs of liberations, photographs of Langenstein and Sandbostel, photographs of a raid on Jews in 1941, and an April 10, 1938 postcard announcing the Anschluss to the people of Salzburg.

Subjects

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.