Leonard Linton photographs

Identifier
irn85744
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.454.1
  • 2019.23
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn85744

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Alexandra K. Linton and Patricia V. Linton

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Alexandra Linton and Patricia Linton.

Scope and Content

Collection of copy prints and copy negatives of black and white images which depict images of survivors and victims after liberation (primarily in Woebbelin concentration camp), reburial of victims, general post-WWII imagery (destruction, abandoned property, signs) and Nazi officials after their death either by hanging or suicide at Nuremberg prison. Original images primarily taken by the US Army Signal Corps and gathered by Leonard Linton (donors' father) who was part of the US G5 military unit after the war and cared for survivors of the Woebbelin concentration camp.

Corporate Bodies

  • Wöbbelin (Concentration camp)

Subjects

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

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.

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