Solomon Bogard collection
Extent and Medium
folders
3
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Solomon Bogard donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Feb. 13, 2007.
Scope and Content
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 2006.132.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document